send_credentials

Description:

public bool send_credentials (Cancellable? cancellable = null) throws Error

Passes the credentials of the current user the receiving side of the connection.

The receiving end has to call receive_credentials (or similar) to accept the credentials.

As well as sending the credentials this also writes a single NUL byte to the stream, as this is required for credentials passing to work on some implementations.

This method can be expected to be available on the following platforms:

Linux since GLib 2.26
FreeBSD since GLib 2.26
GNU/kFreeBSD since GLib 2.36
Solaris, Illumos and OpenSolaris since GLib 2.40
GNU/Hurd since GLib 2.40

Other ways to exchange credentials with a foreign peer includes the UnixCredentialsMessage type and get_credentials function.

Parameters:

this	A UnixConnection.
cancellable	A Cancellable or null.

Returns:

true on success, false if throws is set.