dbus/bus dbus-daemon.1.in,1.1,1.2

Havoc Pennington hp at kemper.freedesktop.org
Sun Feb 26 00:11:05 PST 2006


Update of /cvs/dbus/dbus/bus
In directory kemper:/tmp/cvs-serv25065/bus

Modified Files:
	dbus-daemon.1.in 
Log Message:
2006-02-26  Havoc Pennington  <hp at redhat.com>

	* bus/dbus-daemon.1.in: improve the language in a couple spots I noticed

	* dbus/dbus-bus.c (internal_bus_get): in the error message if the
	session bus variable is unset, suggest "man dbus-launch" and "man
	dbus-daemon" to figure out how to fix the problem



Index: dbus-daemon.1.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/dbus/dbus/bus/dbus-daemon.1.in,v
retrieving revision 1.1
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -d -r1.1 -r1.2
--- dbus-daemon.1.in	18 Jan 2005 22:20:38 -0000	1.1
+++ dbus-daemon.1.in	26 Feb 2006 08:11:03 -0000	1.2
@@ -295,16 +295,22 @@
 
 .PP
 max_completed_connections divided by max_connections_per_user is the
-number of users that can work together to DOS all other users by using
-up all connections.
+number of users that can work together to denial-of-service all other users by using
+up all connections on the systemwide bus.
+
+.PP
+Limits are normally only of interest on the systemwide bus, not the user session 
+buses.
 
 .TP
 .I "<policy>"
 
 .PP
-The <policy> element defines a policy to be applied to a particular
+The <policy> element defines a security policy to be applied to a particular
 set of connections to the bus. A policy is made up of
-<allow> and <deny> elements.
+<allow> and <deny> elements. Policies are normally used with the systemwide bus;
+they are analogous to a firewall in that they allow expected traffic 
+and prevent unexpected traffic.
 
 .PP
 The <policy> element has one of three attributes:
@@ -559,11 +565,13 @@
 Second, any time a connection asks to own a name, 
 the bus daemon will check permissions with the security 
 context of the connection as source, the security context specified
-for the name with an <associate> element as target, object 
+for the name in the config file as target, object 
 class "dbus" and requested permission "acquire_svc".
 
 .PP
-If the name has no security context associated in the 
+The security context for a bus name is specified with the 
+<associate> element described earlier in this document.
+If a name has no security context associated in the 
 configuration file, the security context of the bus daemon 
 itself will be used.
 



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