Running DBUS as a Windows service

Wed Apr 13 06:59:40 UTC 2016

Am 12.04.2016 um 19:48 schrieb Simon McVittie:
> The authentication protocol that is
> normally used on Unix relies on AF_UNIX sockets with
> credentials-passing, which are very much Unix-specific; we are not aware
> of a way to do the same thing on Windows.
For localhost tcp connections which is used for all connections between
applications on the same host dbus already has support to fetch the peer
pid and therefore get credentials in a secure way.
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/commit/?h=dbus-1.10&id=4886ff454e3b6d42727fe266557eccd68d728c78


Ralf