How the heck can it work?

James Sutherland jas88 at cam.ac.uk
Tue Jul 25 20:33:15 GMT 2000


On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, James Sutherland wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > 
> > > possible problems with getpeername() when running from inetd?
> > 
> > Sorry? The problem here was with user authentication - VOS doesn't return
> > the encrypted password when asked, even for root. It looks as if Ron now
> > has a fix for that.
> > 
> > If you were meaning my explanation of inetd's operation would break
> > getpeername(),
> 
> yes.  worth checking that client_name and client_addr work, when running
> from inetd.

Good point. Once Ron has finished including auth support, it should work
well enough for him to check that - Ron??


James.





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