[Libvir] [RFC PATCH] Solaris least privilege

Daniel Veillard veillard at redhat.com
Thu Apr 24 14:22:10 UTC 2008


On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 03:04:56PM +0100, John Levon wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 09:54:19AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > Also it seems you use some socket auth extensions to detect the
> > uid of the other process, we do that already in qemud/qemud.c see
> > function qemudGetSocketIdentity() , maybe we should abstract that in the
> > util.c module and provide the _sun version there.
> 
> It's not about UID but privilege. The Identity stuff is only used under
> HAVE_POLKIT, so I'm not sure there's much commonality that can be
> abstracted. Can you describe further what you would expect it to look
> like?

  okay then I misunderstood that part of the patch,

Daniel

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