Re: Client and server run by different users

[Dave Kessler <dkessler berkeley innomedia com>]

Another issue can be the ownership and permissions on the local socket; if you
are using local communication (the default), any client wishing 
to communicate with your server would have to be able to 
open/write to/read from that local socket as if it were a file.


On 15 Jan 2001, Jon K Hellan wrote:

> Date: 15 Jan 2001 10:48:21 +0100
> From: Jon K Hellan <Jon Hellan clustra com>
> Reply-To: orbit-list gnome org
> To: orbit-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: Client and server run by different users
> 
> >
> >  Hi! 
> >
> >  I am writing an ORBit server that is to be accessible by several clients, 
> >  both locally and on the network. 
> >
> >  Primarily the server will be accessed by clients on the local machine, but 
> >  usually the clients will not be run by the same user as the server. 
> >
> >  But for some reason I cannot get the clients access the server if they are 
> >  run by any other user than the server. Does anyone know how to fix this? 
> >
> >  Rune Saetre 
> >
> 
> There are two communication mechanisms, TCP/IP and one which is used
> for local communications.
> 
> In the default configuration (at least in a Gnome installation), TCP
> is disabled.
> 
> My guess is that you need TCP/IP for communication between different
> users on the same machine. You can enable this by including 
> ORBIIOPIPv4=1 in the system orbitrc or in ~/.orbitrc of the users
> involved.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Jon Kåre
> 
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