From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f1748759facf07b2,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-09 10:14:20 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news.uunet.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3EBBDE58.8070605@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: GNAT's Glade Question: Credentials (UNIX Sockets) & SSL? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 12:59:04 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1052499543 198.96.223.163 (Fri, 09 May 2003 12:59:03 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 12:59:03 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:37119 Date: 2003-05-09T12:59:04-04:00 List-Id: I haven't yet had the time to thoroughly research this problem, but I thought I'd ask the group first, to see if someone else has already investigated/solved these problems. Three questions: Q1.Can you specify that a channel use a UNIX socket instead of "tcp"? If so, then do you just specify ("unix", "/unix/pathname") ? (I plan to try this tonight). Q2.If you are able to accomplish #1 somehow, how can you gain access to the underlying socket? Forgive me if this is obvious, because I have not yet had time to look at specs/sources.. Why? I need to access the ancillary data on the UNIX socket to prove the identity of the connecting process (the userid). This only works of course on the "local host" using UNIX sockets, but this is precisely what I need for an application. Q3.Has anyone implemented a SSL "filter" for use with a Glade channel yet? I expect that you'd use some binding to the SSL library. But is this even practical? I've never used the SSL _library_ yet, from code. I need SSL to securely authenticate between separate hosts, over the network (ideally using Glade interfaces). -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg