[PATCH] dbus-spec: introduce new PERMIT_INTERACTIVE_AUTHENTICATION

[Thiago Macieira]

On Wednesday 03 September 2014 20:26:22 Lennart Poettering wrote:
> +                <entry><literal>PERMIT_INTERACTIVE_AUTHENTICATION</literal>
> </entry> +                <entry>0x4</entry>
> +                <entry>This is a hint that may be set on a method call
> +                message that informs the receiving side that the
> +                caller is OK if possibly time-intensive interactive
> +                user authentication may take place before the method
> +                call will complete. A client may set this flag if it
> +                is prepared to wait for a longer time before the
> +                method call returns, and if its UI may be interrupted
> +                by interactively querying the user for passwords or
> +                confirmation. This flag is only useful when
> +                unprivileged code calls a more priviliged method call,
> +                and an authentication framework is deployed that
> +                allows possibly interactive authentication. If no such
> +                framework is deployed it has no effect. This flag
> +                should not be set by default by client
> +                implementations. If it is set the caller also should
> +                set a suitably long timeout on the method call to make
> +                sure the user interaction may complete. This flag is
> +                only valid for method call messages, and shall be
> +                ignored otherwise.

How about removing the part about authentication and privileges, simply make 
the flag indicate that the caller is ok with a lengthy operation from the 
callee?

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