hal 0.5.1 "Sonny...?"
W. Michael Petullo
mike at flyn.org
Thu Apr 28 07:22:22 PDT 2005
> Forgot to mention that the specific goals for 0.5.2 are
>
[...]
> - Provide method invocations on hal device objects as requested by the
> luks/hal/gnome-volume-manager and gnome-power-manager projects
[...]
This is good for the LUKS work. I do have one question, something that
was discussed a while back on this list. How, for example, will
gnome-volume-manager provide a passphrase to HAL through this method
invocation interface? More specifically, what IPC method will be used? I
remember discussing setting method parameters in an environment variable.
This, however, is not necessarily safe for secrets like passphrases. Will
a method script be able to read its parameter from stdin?
See also:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2004-December/001486.html.
I just want to make sure that this is considered as the specification
moves from the TODO file into something more formal.
Thanks, David.
--
Mike
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