From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: bluez-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bluez-devel] Multiple user/device model?
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:49:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1127216957.5168.30.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1127025473.14893.51.camel@yeti>
Hi Fredrik,
> Can multiple users have different sets of Bluetooth devices? I.e.
> something like this:
>
> /home/peter/.bluetooth/devices/00:11:22:33:44:55/linkkeys
> /home/maria/.bluetooth/devices/99:88:77:66:55:44/linkkeys
>
> With the following properties:
>
> 1. User pairing and device management don't require
> administrative (root) privileges.
> 2. Peter cannot remove/modify Maria's devices and vice versa.
> 3. Would be excellent if Peter and Maria could use Bluetooth
> simultaneously, but good enough if only one at the time.
the idea is not bad, but it will never work this way. This is because
how the Bluetooth security architecture is designed. We need a central
root service that deals with the kernel side of HCI. However the control
of pairing etc. for users will be handled over D-Bus.
Regards
Marcel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-20 11:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-18 6:37 [Bluez-devel] Multiple user/device model? Fredrik Noring
2005-09-20 11:49 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2005-09-20 20:55 ` Fredrik Noring
2005-09-21 8:39 ` Marcel Holtmann
2005-09-21 12:10 ` Claudio Takahasi
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