[systemd-devel] systemd-devel] dbus-broker can be used for a "user" type bus accessible over tcp or not?

[Mantas Mikulėnas]

On 2025-01-21 11:05, Erik Slagter wrote:
> Duly noted!
> 
> But as I already wrote to Lennart, this is for a home environment. 
> Besides my hobby as a programmer, in daily life I am a network admin. So 
> I am quite aware of all the dangers lurking. There is a reason I have 
> quite a bunch of vlans, vrfs and ssids. So believe me when I say there 
> will be no other trusted or rogue client able to connect to this tcp 
> socket than the one I allow. There is only the user level authentication 
> issue. But that's actually no real issue as there is only one "user" 
> user active in my home network (other than root etc.), me. No publicly 
> accessible network outlets or switchports, no ssids that allow unknown 
> clients etc...
> 
> So now we have wavered all responsibilities. Is it possible or is it not 
> possible? Dbus-broker listening on tcp? If it's not possible, my 
> question is answered and I can go move on.

...Do note though that even though dbus-broker was caused by systemd, it 
isn't really *part of* systemd, and I don't know if any of its 
developers even read the systemd mailing list anymore. So if you never 
get a definite answer, that would be why.