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| author | Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith@sun.com> | 2004-07-17 01:13:31 +0000 |
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| committer | Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith@sun.com> | 2004-07-17 01:13:31 +0000 |
| commit | de9676e191f5a31ea0920a194ec16966add70f55 (patch) | |
| tree | 8d8bb730a56dbf5e44343b2d9958d264419915d4 | |
| parent | b67211135e61c1458a730fa66b56519cca6a702a (diff) | |
Fix typo in debug message in MakeAllCLTSServerListenersXORG-6_7_99_1
Add $(GETPEER_DEFINES) to DEPEND_DEFINES for makedepend
Add "localuser" and "localgroup" access types to server-interpreted
authentication scheme.
| -rw-r--r-- | specs/SIAddresses/localuser.txt | 21 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/specs/SIAddresses/localuser.txt b/specs/SIAddresses/localuser.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bb9be0e --- /dev/null +++ b/specs/SIAddresses/localuser.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +Server-interpreted Authentication Types "localuser" and "localgroup": + +On systems which can determine in a secure fashion the credentials of a client +process, the "localuser" and "localgroup" authentication methods provide access +based on those credentials. The format of the values provided is platform +specific. For POSIX & UNIX platforms, if the value starts with the character +'#', the rest of the string shall be treated as a decimal uid or gid, otherwise +the string is defined as a user name or group name. + +Systems offering this MUST not simply trust a user supplied value (such as an +environment variable or IDENT protocol response). It is expected many systems +will only support this for clients running on the same host using a local IPC +transport. + +Examples: + xhost +SI:localuser:alanc + xhost +SI:localuser:#1234 + xhost +SI:localgroup:wheel + xhost +SI:localgroup:#0 + +$XdotOrg: $ |