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[Havoc Pennington]

On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 13:12, Joe Shaw wrote:
> 
> The workaround seems to be that a client binds to some unix socket and
> the server does a stat() on it, but that's pretty sketchy, since on
> certain System V systems you can chown your files to other people.  SVR4
> has some ioctls for passing fds around, and those have credentials, but
> I don't know much about that.  Maybe it works on Solaris.

Hrm. Well, we could say "you have to use Kerberos" ;-)

Surely OS X has _some_ way to do this...

Havoc