Running DBUS as a Windows service

Simon McVittie simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk
Fri Apr 15 12:55:02 UTC 2016


On 13/04/16 07:59, Ralf Habacker wrote:
> 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

As discussed on <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83499>, it
isn't at all clear to me that this is secure.

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Simon McVittie
Collabora Ltd. <http://www.collabora.com/>



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