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No way to set permissions on UNIX socket

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Description

You can set permissions on the socket using the second callback argument on the listen function but a user of this library has no way of doing that. This makes the socket feature quite useless unless you run the server as the same user as the proxying server, which is far from ideal.

I'm not a Node.js guy, I just want to set up Xen Orchestra in a secure manner.

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Research direction

Start at the library's listen function and trace how UNIX socket options are handled. Confirm how the second callback argument controls socket permissions, then define an exposed way for callers to set them and verify that the resulting UNIX socket uses the requested permissions.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
backend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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