New socket call suggestion

grunwald at uiucdcsb.UUCP grunwald at uiucdcsb.UUCP
Thu Dec 20 10:18:00 AEST 1984


Re: putting the egid and euid in with the socket information

Other people have suggested this. Its needed for security reasons in a lot of
applications. However, I don't think you could do that and still use TCP/IP
since it's not in the definition. And a lot of people still want to use all
the wonderful features of TCP/IP.
	You can't do it in user space either -- needs to be in the kernel or
someone can intercept it. You'd have to define another protocol which
packages that information along with each socket. Perhaps a Secure-IP or
something along those lines.

Has anyone done this?



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