Name or Names in service files? (Disconnect between the spec and our implementation)

Havoc Pennington hp at redhat.com
Wed Dec 6 11:38:00 PST 2006



Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Havoc Pennington wrote:
>> The wildcard does seem like a pretty clean solution, as long as it's OK
>> to spawn an arbitrary number of these processes without validating the
>> exact name first. There might be a problem using this on the system bus,
>> because anyone could start an arbitrary number of these processes as the
>> gvfs user, and also we'd have to adapt the security policy stuff to work
>> in this case (right now you need to specify a particular bus name).
> 
> I had thought the system bus did not have service activation. Unless those 
> services are setuid executables...
> 

It doesn't now, but davidz was going to add it ...

Havoc



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