DBUS remote binding on all interfaces ?

Havoc Pennington hp at redhat.com
Thu Nov 9 09:53:25 PST 2006



Ross Burton wrote:
> 
> You should be aware that there is no sane authentication with
> dbus-over-tcp: if you use cookies you have to distribute them somehow,
> and if you turn it off anyone on the network can send messages.
> 

If you have an NFS homedir I think the cookies thing works. Of course 
neither NFS nor dbus-tcp is encrypted, but behind a firewall that should 
be fine.

Havoc



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