getsockopt using SO_PASSCRED option on dbus - possible ?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 15.07.10 21:14, Julian Thomé (frostisch at yahoo.de) wrote:

> Hello Mailing List,
> 
> i want to retreive the credentials of the dbus-proxy-daemon using
> getsockopt after a simple connect. I have attached the sourcefile. But
> this doesn't work in this way. The pid returned is not the one of the
> dbus-daemon.

Note that SO_PASSCRED enables reception of SCM_CREDENTIALS. It is
orthogonal to SO_PEERCRED.

You are probably looking for the  dbus_bus_get_unix_user() in the
libdbus API.

Lennart

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