Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to make use of UNIX credential passing on a local domain socket > to verify the identity of a user connecting to a privileged > service. However it looks like the socket module doesn't implement > sendmsg/recvmsg wrappers, and I can't find another module that does > this either. Is there something I have missed?
There is a patch for it attached to an RFE in the python bug tracker, I forget which one. Try searching for sendmsg or ancillary messages or SCM_RIGHTS in the tracker. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list