>> In any case, the major issue I would have with it is the lack of >> authentication. But that's so obvious that I assume you would be >> doing something like requiring a password - or doing it only for >> AF_LOCAL sockets and using LOCAL_PEEREID. [...] > When this was done in last years GSoC it was a AF_LOCAL socket to > control inetd. I am not sure that inetd having a configuration > service listening on the network is a really good idea -
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