from twisted.internet import protocol, reactor import socket, struct class CredChecker(protocol.Protocol): def connectionMade(self): buf = self.transport.socket.getsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, 17, 4*3) pid, uid, gid = struct.unpack('3i', buf) print pid, uid, gid self.transport.loseConnection() f = protocol.Factory() f.protocol = CredChecker reactor.listenUNIX("lala", f) reactor.run()