Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:03:17 -0700
From: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>
Subject: [webricken:152] Re: getting the uid of the incoming browser?
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At 10:43 AM -0400 9/28/05, Dan Janowski wrote:
>I do not believe what you are looking for is available. I faintly
>recall that user information is available in SYSV streams, but not
>over TCP/IP sockets.

It looks like the ident protocol may be able to do the trick:

   http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1413.txt

>In any event, something like this coming over the network cannot be
>trusted as it can be forged. That is why authentication exists.

As I noted, I'm talking about doing all of this on a single machine.

-r
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