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Re: querying socket peer credentials

To: Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>, current-users%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: querying socket peer credentials
From: Iain Hibbert <plunky%ogmig.net@localhost>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2025 07:05:58 +0100 (BST)

On Mon, 7 Jul 2025, Thomas Klausner wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> wayland 1.24.0 would like to read the credentials of the other side of a socket.
[..]
> Is this supported in NetBSD in a different way, or is it missing this
> feature?

you can check the credentials on a local socket (which I'm guessing 
wayland is using?), see unix(4) LOCAL_CREDS and LOCAL_PEEREID

I did this with sdpd(8)

iain

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- querying socket peer credentials
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