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Date:      Tue, 22 Oct 96 10:53:20 PST
From:      BRETT_GLASS@infoworld.com
To:        Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Programming question: How to identify owner of a socket?
Message-ID:  <9609228460.AA846008353@ccgate.infoworld.com>

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> As far as I know, the client would have to send this information
> across the link to the server.

This is a special case, though: the client and the server are the same
machine. (The user is coming in via a modem connection and SLiRP.)
So, a privileged process ought to be able to find out what process has
opened the socket and is using that port number -- from which it ought to
be able to deduce the ID of the user.

--Brett




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