Issues with UNIX Local Sockets permission
 

I have written and application that uses local sockets. This all works great
as long as the two applications that are using this IPC are the same user.

When I want to talk to the Server (Which is at root), I get permission denied on the connect.

I have not been able to find a way to change the permissions on the file that is used for this socket, what do I have to do ? It is a different type of bind or what ?

Any help would be greatly appriciated.

Glen

I think that using umask() may help. The value of umask you'd like to set will probably be 0. I'm not sure but umask works with local socket, too. Use man 2 umask to see umask manual page.

Thanks Mara, that was perfect advise. Once I used umask
to change the default permissions (I used 755) it all worked
just fine.

Appriciate it !

Glen