Activation of services on system bus

Havoc Pennington hp at redhat.com
Sat Apr 28 08:19:22 PDT 2007


Hi,

Matt Hoosier wrote:
> My installation is a completely vanilla D-Bus 1.0.1. I'm comfortable
> with the resulting service process running as root, so I'm not worried
> about whether the system-bus-activation-using-helper-process issue was
> ever ironed out.

You do need to be worried about that though ;-) because the bus does not 
run as root, it runs as a special user with no privileges.

So basically system bus activation is not implemented and won't work.

Havoc



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