On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 02:09:27PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>>>> "Balazs" == Balazs Scheidler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> (Re: UNIX domain socket auth being occasionally available)
>
> Balazs> Yet you can't base the protocol on it, because it's not a common feature...
>
> You can define it as an optional, negotiable, feature. Which is what _all_
> authentication/authorization/encryption features should be.
This would not be useful for inter-syslog communications, only for local
messages, and I don't think too much negotiations would take place between
the program and the local syslogd. This may be a configuration option, in
some implementation supporting special features of some operating system.
--
Bazsi
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