Name or Names in service files? (Disconnect between the spec and our implementation)

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Wed Dec 6 11:35:27 PST 2006


Havoc Pennington wrote:
>The wildcard does seem like a pretty clean solution, as long as it's OK
>to spawn an arbitrary number of these processes without validating the
>exact name first. There might be a problem using this on the system bus,
>because anyone could start an arbitrary number of these processes as the
>gvfs user, and also we'd have to adapt the security policy stuff to work
>in this case (right now you need to specify a particular bus name).

I had thought the system bus did not have service activation. Unless those 
services are setuid executables...

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