From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Nils Faerber <nils.faerber@kernelconcepts.de>
Cc: bluez-devel@lists.sf.net
Subject: Re: [Bluez-devel] Force pairing on single connection?
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 11:16:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1076408218.32750.39.camel@pegasus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1076408056.17071.53.camel@localhost>
Hi Nils,
> > > Is it possible to force a pairing process for a single device pair?
> > > The situation is that I have a device that seems to accept non-paired
> > > and paired connections. I would now like to pair with this device and
> > > thus force the pairing, but only for this device - I am quite happy with
> > > not being forced to pair for mostly all other devices ;)
> > you must issue a HCI_Authenticate command on the HCI socket. There is no
> > other method at the moment. I was thinking about adding an ioctl to the
> > L2CAP socket so this can also be triggered by normal users.
> > Other proposals are welcome.
>
> Hmm... maybe as a first quickshot simply add a function to hcitool which
> does exctly this command issue. Hcitool can already issue arbitrary HCI
> commands and adding a function for forcing authentication would simply
> be a convenience thing...
> Something like
> hcitool auth <BT-MAC>
> maybe...
sure. Send me a patch for it (including man page update).
> The rest should happen automatically? I.e. PIN input and such would go
> the normal way of PINs I suppose, so either by script or GUI input.
Yes.
Regards
Marcel
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-09 15:03 [Bluez-devel] Force pairing on single connection? Nils Faerber
2004-02-10 10:05 ` Marcel Holtmann
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2004-02-10 10:16 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2004-03-17 14:23 ` Fred Schättgen
2004-03-19 0:13 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-03-19 17:06 ` Fred Schättgen
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