Class
GioCredentials
since: 2.26
Description
final class Gio.Credentials : GObject.Object {
/* No available fields */
}The GCredentials type is a reference-counted wrapper for native credentials.
The information in GCredentials is typically used for identifying,
authenticating and authorizing other processes.
Some operating systems supports looking up the credentials of the remote
peer of a communication endpoint - see e.g. g_socket_get_credentials().
Some operating systems supports securely sending and receiving
credentials over a Unix Domain Socket, see GUnixCredentialsMessage,
g_unix_connection_send_credentials() and
g_unix_connection_receive_credentials() for details.
On Linux, the native credential type is a struct ucred - see the
unix(7) man page for details. This corresponds to
G_CREDENTIALS_TYPE_LINUX_UCRED.
On Apple operating systems (including iOS, tvOS, and macOS), the native credential
type is a struct xucred. This corresponds to G_CREDENTIALS_TYPE_APPLE_XUCRED.
On FreeBSD, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, and GNU/Hurd, the native credential type is a
struct cmsgcred. This corresponds to G_CREDENTIALS_TYPE_FREEBSD_CMSGCRED.
On NetBSD, the native credential type is a struct unpcbid.
This corresponds to G_CREDENTIALS_TYPE_NETBSD_UNPCBID.
On OpenBSD, the native credential type is a struct sockpeercred.
This corresponds to G_CREDENTIALS_TYPE_OPENBSD_SOCKPEERCRED.
On Solaris (including OpenSolaris and its derivatives), the native credential type
is a ucred_t. This corresponds to G_CREDENTIALS_TYPE_SOLARIS_UCRED.
Since GLib 2.72, on Windows, the native credentials may contain the PID of a
process. This corresponds to G_CREDENTIALS_TYPE_WIN32_PID.
Available since: 2.26
Constructors
g_credentials_new
Creates a new GCredentials object with credentials matching the
the current process.
since: 2.26
Instance methods
g_credentials_get_native
Gets a pointer to native credentials of type native_type from
credentials.
since: 2.26
g_credentials_get_unix_pid
Tries to get the UNIX process identifier from credentials. This
method is only available on UNIX platforms.
since: 2.36
g_credentials_get_unix_user
Tries to get the UNIX user identifier from credentials. This
method is only available on UNIX platforms.
since: 2.26
g_credentials_is_same_user
Checks if credentials and other_credentials is the same user.
since: 2.26
g_credentials_set_native
Copies the native credentials of type native_type from native
into credentials.
since: 2.26
g_credentials_set_unix_user
Tries to set the UNIX user identifier on credentials. This method
is only available on UNIX platforms.
since: 2.26
g_credentials_to_string
Creates a human-readable textual representation of credentials
that can be used in logging and debug messages. The format of the
returned string may change in future GLib release.
since: 2.26
Signals
Signals inherited from GObject (1)
GObject::notify
The notify signal is emitted on an object when one of its properties has its value set through g_object_set_property(), g_object_set(), et al.