From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: BlueZ Mailing List <bluez-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bluez-devel] SDP queries when authentication/encryption are turned on
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 05:28:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1109132939.8506.113.camel@pegasus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050223020808.14745.qmail@web52803.mail.yahoo.com>
Hi Shawn,
> If in hcid.conf I use these lines:
>
> auth enable;
> encrypt enable;
>
> then when I do sdptool browse or sdptool search, it keeps prompting me
> to bond with every Bluetooth device that it discovers. This does not
> make sense, because the whole point of service discovery is to decide
> what device you want to connect to, before having to bond with it. If
> the device was requiring a bond before answering an SDP query, fine,
> but the devices I have tested with do not - they will answer SDP
> queries just fine without a bond, as long as I have commented out those
> two lines in hcid.conf. Maybe this is a bug - IMO bluez should
> probably ignore those settings for SDP, and always do SDP insecurely.
> Otherwise "sdp search" becomes very impractical. At my office often 20
> or more devices will be involved in such a search, belonging to various
> coworkers, some of whom I have not met, and I certainly do not want to
> bond with all those devices; but I also do not want to turn off
> authorization completely just so that I can do sdp queries.
if you set your device into security mode 3, then this is what you get.
As I have often said, do this only when you know what you are doing and
what does this imply.
Regards
Marcel
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-23 2:08 [Bluez-devel] SDP queries when authentication/encryption are turned on Shawn Rutledge
2005-02-23 4:28 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2005-02-23 9:44 ` Fred Schaettgen
2005-02-24 10:43 ` Marcel Holtmann
2005-02-24 12:22 ` Fred Schaettgen
2005-02-28 8:28 ` Marcel Holtmann
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