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

[Simo Sorce]

On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 15:52 +0100, Sumit Bose wrote:
> 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/.

Pushed but renamed private/pam.priv to just private/pam, I think that's
private enough :-)

Simo.

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