d-bus head

Joe Shaw joe@ximian.com
Thu, 30 Oct 2003 15:54:03 -0500


On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 15:50, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 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.

It definitely won't work: OS X doesn't have that (at least up to 10.2...
haven't checked 10.3).  It'll need to do some other sort of auth.

Joe