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

[Erik Slagter]

On 21-01-2025 17:05, Mantas Mikulėnas wrote:
> On 2025-01-21 17:00, Erik Slagter wrote:
>> I was going to say that stunnel can't connect to a unix socket, but I 
>> just checked and apparently it (now) can. That's why I was using 
>> socat. This may be interesting. If it works I may even be able to 
>> expose the session bus this way, which makes it all a lot less complex.
> 
> Either stunnel or socat might work long as you don't attempt to use 
> programs which expect to be able to attach file descriptors to D-Bus 
> messages. Otherwise they'll "successfully" negotiate this capability 
> during the protocol handshake but then the sent FDs will disappear.

That would be logical, indeed. But for the simple things I want to do, 
at least socat works just fine. I didn't try stunnel yet.

If it doesn't work for some things, I won't come to complain here ;-)