SD_BUS_GET_NAME_CREDS(3)

NAME
sd_bus_get_name_creds, sd_bus_get_owner_creds - Query bus client credentials

SYNOPSIS

#include <systemd/sd-bus.h>

int sd_bus_get_name_creds(sd_bus *bus, const char *name, uint64_t mask, sd_bus_creds **creds);

int sd_bus_get_owner_creds(sd_bus *bus, uint64_t mask, sd_bus_creds **creds);

DESCRIPTION

sd_bus_get_name_creds() queries the credentials of the bus client identified by name. The mask parameter is a combo of SD_BUS_CREDS_* flags that indicate which credential info the caller is interested in. See sd_bus_creds_new_from_pid(3) for a list of possible flags. On success, creds contains a new sd_bus_creds instance with the requested information. Ownership of this instance belongs to the caller and it should be freed once no longer needed by calling sd_bus_creds_unref(3).

sd_bus_get_owner_creds() queries the credentials of the creator of the given bus. The mask and creds parameters behave the same as in sd_bus_get_name_creds().

RETURN VALUE

On success, these functions return a non-negative integer. On failure, they return a negative errno-style error code.

  Errors

Returned errors may indicate the following problems:

-EINVAL
    An argument is invalid.

-ENOPKG
    The bus cannot be resolved.

-EPERM
    The bus has already been started.

-ECHILD
    The bus was created in a different process, library or module instance.

-ENOMEM
    Memory allocation failed.

NOTES

Functions described here are available as a shared library, which can be compiled against and linked to with the libsystemd pkg-config(1) file.

The code described here uses getenv(3), which is declared to be not multi-thread-safe. This means that the code calling the functions described here must not call setenv(3) from a parallel thread. It is recommended to only do calls to setenv() from an early phase of the program when no other threads have been started.

HISTORY

sd_bus_get_name_creds() and sd_bus_get_owner_creds() were added in version 221.

SEE ALSO

systemd(1), sd-bus(3), sd_bus_creds_unref(3)