question on <auth> and .dbus_keyrings

Havoc Pennington hp at redhat.com
Sat Jun 24 12:14:00 PDT 2006



Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Havoc Pennington wrote:
>> session.conf doesn't specify anything special, so gets the default which
>> is that either root or the user owning the bus can connect.
> 
> The session.conf shipped on CVS doesn't allow root-owned processes to 
> connect to a user session bus.
> 

I was looking at the comment at policy.c:457 , looking again the code 
right after the comment does not do what the comment says ;-)

According to cvs history the code and the comment were in the same 
patch, so who knows what we intended...

Havoc



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