Re: [Bluez-devel] [DBUS Patch] Device Property

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Claudio,

> I think we are confusing some D-Bus concepts.
> 
> Currently, hcid is connected to the "system" bus, because the
> Bluetooth adapter is a shared resource and it can be used by any
> logged-in user or remote users. As long as I known the "system bus"
> should be used for notification from the system to user sessions(it's
> accessible to all applications on the system). The "session bus"
> should be used to implement desktop environments communication. The
> address of the per-session bus daemon is automatically discovered by
> reading an environment variable. A login session message bus is
> started each time a user logs in.

this is my understanding, too.

> If we choose use the session bus, probably it will required huge code
> modification in order to support multiple bus session connection or
> start a new BlueZ D-Bus daemon for each user session. In my opinion,
> this approach is not feasible.

This will simply not work, because there can be only one daemon at a
time and it must run all the time.

> If you want provide BlueZ D-Bus services only for the logged-in user,
> we can try analise the modifications required to control the D-Bus
> connections and its drawbacks.

The D-Bus services are available in general, but I wanna restrict the
methods that are actually modifying settings to the root user and/or the
currently logged in user. The hal.conf uses "<policy at_console="true">"
to provide this (if I am not mistaken).

Remember that we are talking about the default configuration. We don't
need to provide the best security model, but at least a decent one. For
me this means that the root user and the currently logged in user have
full control over the device. All other users are restricted.

Regards

Marcel




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