How to create a DBus server

[Jamie McCracken]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 12:04:24PM +0000, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> 
>>>>That's probably not really supported (it could be, but allowing p2p 
>>>>communication is not the main goal). DBus is meant to be used with a 
>>>>shared server (called message bus) which can be global to a machine or 
>>>>local to the user's session.
>>>
>>>It is supported.  HAL uses p2p to avoid spamming the bus.  However it is
>>>a bit more complicated than using the bus to communicate.  Tang, can you
>>>describe how you want to use D-Bus?
>>
>>Just a quick question on DbusServer. Can it be used for remote machine 
>>access via tcp/ip? Or is tcp/ip support disabled for security reasons?
> 
> 
> Yes, there is a TCP transport implemented in the DBus libraries. The
> caveat is, however, that there is no authentication protocol implemented
> yet that is particularly suited to TCP. IIRC, the plan is to integrate 
> cyrus sasl to provide strong authentication. Also note although its
> a binary stream, the on the wire encoding is *not* encrypted in any
> way so not suitable for any remotely sensitive data.

thanks - I dont strictly need authentication as such although it would 
be nice to have as an option for the security conscious. That said, are 
there any plans to support SSL to encrypt everything sent over the wire?


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Mr Jamie McCracken
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