dbus - remote

[Julien Isorce]

Thx for your point of views.

I added comments here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15393

Sincerely
Julien

2010/1/14 Schmottlach, Glenn <glenn.schmottlach at harman.com>

> I believe this is/was a security decision. There is no easy way to
> authenticate and authorize the application that is attempting to connect to
> the daemon from the outside. If you are on a "trusted" network then this may
> not apply (that's the environment I work in). I agree, this approach has a
> great deal of potential and is how I use it with an embedded system for
> debug and testing out-side the target environment.
>
> Glenn
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dbus-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org [mailto:
> dbus-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Roberto -MadBob- Guido
> Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 9:15 AM
> To: dbus at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: dbus - remote
>
> On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 13:40 +0100, Peter Würtz wrote:
> > Unfortunately there seems to be no general interest in this IMO very
> > powerful use case
> >
> I agree: on those days it is common to have many PCs connected on the
> same LAN (a laptop, a modern smartphone, a desktop, perhaps an home
> server...), be able to share each other data and RPCs throught the well
> know DBUS API will untap many opportunities.
>
> Is there any "official" reason for which this option was never be
> integrated in the mainstream codebase? Lack of proper testing of the
> already existing patches? Lack of interest in this feature? Lack of
> resources to maintain that?
>
> --
> Roberto -MadBob- Guido
> http://claimid.com/madbob
>
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