At 10:06 AM 1/7/98 -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote:
>On Wed, 07 Jan 1998 22:41:44 +1100 
> Luke Mewburn <lm@cs.rmit.edu.au> wrote:
>
> > > Yes the id's are all that the kernel check, but the login name can still be
> > > useful - for logging if nothing else.
> > 
> > yeah, i agree (where a setuid() has been done, but the logname is
> > still the original user).
>
>The reason the login name (and the supplemental group list, too) is not
>included is that you then change the format of the data structure if
>either MAXLOGNAME or NGROUPS is changed (there's also the problem of
>having to pull in <sys/param.h> to build socket-using code, but that's
>another issue :-).
>
>If you want to get the string identity of the original user, use getpwuid()
>with the real user id passed in the sockcred.

Or you could pass a self describing structure.  
uid/gid/euid/egid/grp-cnt/n-grps/loginname(0 term).

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