D-Bus policies. system bus and bus names

Lawrence D'Oliveiro ldo at geek-central.gen.nz
Wed May 31 02:43:17 UTC 2017


On Tue, 30 May 2017 23:07:08 +0200, David Sommerseth wrote:

> All this said, the "tunnel/session daemon" doesn't need to be on the
> system bus.  But I'm concerned what happens if the "management daemon"
> dies or gets restarted if the session bus is used.  Who does that
> session bus belong to?

D-Bus can also be used in a client/server setup, quite independent of
the D-Bus Daemon and the whole session/system-bus mechanism. Just
listen for direct client connections on your own server address (e.g. a
Unix socket).


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