unixserver appears to lack SO_PEERCRED support

[joshua pritikin]

Binary package hint: ucspi-unix

This breaks bcron and any other software that relies on SO_PEERCRED.

I have not investigated this exhaustively. This is a tentative diagnosis based on playing around with bcron and trying to compile ucpsi-unix from source (had trouble enabling SO_PEERCRED).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: ucspi-unix 0.36-4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-19.28-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Apr 17 23:08:56 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/installer/media-info'
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ucspi-unix

[joshua pritikin (jpritikin73)]

I couldn't find where HASPEERCRED is defined so I removed the ifdefs. SO_PEERCRED is available via sys/socket.h. Maybe including this header is a new requirement compared to debian or previous ubuntu versions?

[joshua pritikin (jpritikin73)]

The same problem continues to exist in Natty.

[joshua pritikin (jpritikin73)]

This still isn't fixed in quantal. Can somebody nudge the maintainer?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.