Credentials

Added in version 2.26.

class Credentials(**properties: Any)

Superclasses: Object

Constructors:

Credentials(**properties)
new() -> Gio.Credentials

Constructors

class Credentials

classmethod new() → Credentials

Creates a new Credentials object with credentials matching the the current process.

Added in version 2.26.

Methods

class Credentials

get_unix_pid() → int

Tries to get the UNIX process identifier from credentials. This method is only available on UNIX platforms.

This operation can fail if Credentials is not supported on the OS or if the native credentials type does not contain information about the UNIX process ID.

Added in version 2.36.

get_unix_user() → int

Tries to get the UNIX user identifier from credentials. This method is only available on UNIX platforms.

This operation can fail if Credentials is not supported on the OS or if the native credentials type does not contain information about the UNIX user.

Added in version 2.26.

is_same_user(other_credentials: Credentials) → bool

Checks if credentials and other_credentials is the same user.

This operation can fail if Credentials is not supported on the the OS.

Added in version 2.26.

Parameters:

other_credentials – A Credentials.

set_native(native_type: CredentialsType, native: None) → None

Copies the native credentials of type native_type from native into credentials.

It is a programming error (which will cause a warning to be logged) to use this method if there is no Credentials support for the OS or if native_type isn’t supported by the OS.

Added in version 2.26.

Parameters:

• native_type – The type of native credentials to set.

• native – A pointer to native credentials.

set_unix_user(uid: int) → bool

Tries to set the UNIX user identifier on credentials. This method is only available on UNIX platforms.

This operation can fail if Credentials is not supported on the OS or if the native credentials type does not contain information about the UNIX user. It can also fail if the OS does not allow the use of “spoofed” credentials.

Added in version 2.26.

Parameters:

uid – The UNIX user identifier to set.

to_string() → str

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.

Added in version 2.26.