New policy type to check client credentials?

Havoc Pennington havoc.pennington at gmail.com
Fri Jan 30 14:39:24 PST 2009


Hi,

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Michael Biebl <mbiebl at gmail.com> wrote:
> One complaint I heard a few times already, is that the dbus group
> policy does not work with dynamically assigned groups, i.e. pam_group.
>

There's just no way to know when the group list changes, except for an
extremely expensive reload operation that's not realistic
per-dbus-message.

This is a limitation of libc I think, is the bottom line. If anyone
can fix it in dbus-daemon we'd love to see it.

Havoc


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