Loadable security modules for D-Bus

John Johansen john.johansen at canonical.com
Tue Jan 10 01:36:55 PST 2012


On 01/09/2012 05:21 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On Monday, 9 de January de 2012 17.09.30, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>> Well, for that a call like check_security() or something with that being
>> implemented in a new security.c or so should suffice. check_security()
>> would then be a series of #ifdef for the various systems... 
>>
>> I think it would make sense not to sprinkle the entire code base with
>> code for the various security subsystems, but I think it is fine to have
>> a single file that contains all the security calls wrapped in #ifdef.
> 
> I agree with that. That's what I meant in the other email.
> 
> We do not need loadable modules.
> 
> A question left is how does one declare the security configuration options. Are 
> they <security> tags whose attributes are processed by the security.c file? Or 
> are there multiple tags?
> 
hrmmm, I am not sure yet, my guess is multiple tags


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