How to interact with existing dbus session through sudo?

[David Zeuthen]

Hey,

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Louise Baldwin <louiserbaldwin at aol.com>wrote:

> I really do appreciate your reply, but please note that, through
> additional trial and error, I have determined that it is in fact possible
> to interact with an existing dbus session through sudo ...
>

The fact that it may work is just a coincidence (a bug, even) and this
might change in the future (by adding more careful checking). The D-Bus
session bus designed only for processes in the session it was created for
and in the future we might even use different transports and/or namespaces
(kdbus etc.) that are not reachable form outside where the session is
running. So any crude hack that might work today will surely break in the
future.

    David
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