d-bus head

Havoc Pennington hp@redhat.com
Thu, 30 Oct 2003 15:50:52 -0500


On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 15:21, David Zeuthen wrote:
> 1463: server: Trying mechanism EXTERNAL with initial response of 1 bytes
> 1463: server: no credentials, mechanism EXTERNAL can't authenticate
> 1463: server: Shutting down mechanism EXTERNAL

The problem is that _dbus_read_credentials_unix_socket() (or maybe its
_write() counterpart) doesn't seem to be working on OS X.

> 1463:  server auth state: bytes to send
> 1463:  server auth state: bytes to send
> 1463: server: Sent 36 bytes of: REJECTED EXTERNAL DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1
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Though I do wonder why DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1 is listed here, the system bus
shouldn't allow cookie auth.

Havoc