From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@redhat.com>
To: Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
Cc: bluez-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bluez-devel] patch for d-bus support in hcid
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 10:28:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1056446930.29264.403.camel@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1056040950.3518.18.camel@mill.nexus.co.uk>
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 17:42, Philip Blundell wrote:
> This patch adds support to hcid for PIN requests using D-BUS. (See
> http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/ if you don't know what D-BUS
> is about.)
>
> The advantage of this is that the UI for PIN entry runs as the logged-in
> user, rather than root. There's then no need for the helper application
> to try to guess the value for $DISPLAY or anything like that.
>
> To use this mechanism, you need to configure bluez-utils with
> --enable-dbus, and set pin-helper to "*dbus" in hcid.conf.
Thanks for doing this. There are now packages in Red Hat Rawhide with
this enabled.... volunteers to provide the GNOME and KDE GUI side for
this welcomed...
--
dwmw2
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-24 9:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-19 16:42 [Bluez-devel] patch for d-bus support in hcid Philip Blundell
2003-06-20 16:19 ` David Woodhouse
2003-06-21 0:13 ` Max Krasnyansky
2003-06-24 14:00 ` Version 3 libs/utils (was: Re: [Bluez-devel] patch for d-bus support in hcid) Stephen Crane
2003-06-24 17:31 ` Max Krasnyansky
2003-06-25 9:17 ` Stephen Crane
2003-06-25 12:15 ` Marcel Holtmann
2003-06-26 17:15 ` Version 3 libs/utils Max Krasnyansky
2003-07-23 8:12 ` Version 3 libs/utils (was: Re: [Bluez-devel] patch for d-bus support in hcid) Paul Hedderly
2003-06-24 9:28 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2003-06-24 9:31 ` [Bluez-devel] patch for d-bus support in hcid Philip Blundell
2003-09-04 21:18 ` David Woodhouse
2003-09-04 22:33 ` Philip Blundell
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