Re: [Bluez-devel] New PIN helper, how to include with BlueZ?

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Radek,

> > the /etc/bluetooth/pin support is removed from the current CVS. And I
> > even removed the PIN helper script support completely. So it is the
> > near future with the next blue-utils release which has been targeted
> > for in two weeks.
> > 
> > The syntax of the pincodes file is easy. It is a BD_ADDR and PIN code
> > pair per line. Like the names file etc.
> 
> Thank you.
> Will this stay for the next releses, or is it only a temporary solution?

for now it will stay. However you can emulate the same behavior with a
D-Bus passkey agent and so it might be removed at some point, but not in
the near future.
 
> > > Great, and what about those systems where d-bus is not present?
> > > I hope the D-Bus will still be complemented by some list of devices
> > > and pins.
> > 
> > And what kind of system should that be? All desktop systems are using
> > D-Bus and even the Nokia 770 and the new platform from PalmSource are
> > supporting it by default. So no reason to use something different than
> > D-Bus for PIN handling.
> 
> Well, I'm not using D-Bus on WIndow Maker, Opie has no D-bus support
> (for now). But I don't mean interactive systems. Rather those which
> either have no X, or have no direct input methods at all (home server
> sollusions, no screen, no keyboard).
> I'm using an old PC as an BT gateway for couple of PDAs.

The D-Bus has nothing to do with any special window manager or desktop
system. It is a bus system to exchange messages between programs.

Regards

Marcel




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