Re: [Bluez-devel] [bluez-gnome] Authorization agent address-based whitelisting

Marcel Holtmann
2007-08-07T07:41:12Z

Hi Nicolas,

> I'm working on bluetooth mouse handling in the GNOME desktop recently.
> Now I finally got my mouse working (took a while), I could get some
> coding done. As part of this I thought it could be useful to get around
> the passkey agent authorization question for some devices (ie mouses),
> without enabling auto_authorize in the bluetooth-applet configuration.
>
> Attached you can find a patch to auto-grant authorization request for
> some devices based on their BT address. The addresses are stored in
> gconf as a simple list of strings.
>
> The preferences editor has not been altered (yet) to manipulate this
> list.

did you ever tried bluez-gnome-0.13. You can know set the "trusted" flag
from preferences window and also during the authorization dialog.

Regards

Marcel