[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] added a privileged pipe

Sumit Bose sbose at redhat.com
Thu Mar 5 14:52:57 UTC 2009


Sumit Bose schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> in some off-list discussion the scm_credentials solution was found not
> to be portable enough. This patch creates a second, privileged, pipe
> which only root can access. A flag in the client connection context
> indicates whether the connection was made via the privileged pipe or
> not. This information can be forwarded to the backend which can decided
> if they want to allow privileged operation or not.
> 

new version with privileged pipe in private/.

bye,
Sumit
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