In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Butscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Normally any user could connect to an open socket on a machine >regardless which user established the socket (the user's program, to be >precise). That's not true. On *nix systems, a socket is a file, and is subject to the usual file ownership and protection mechanisms. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list