Attachment 53407 Details for Bug 42809 – [2/2] DBusTube: recommend Socket_Access_Control_Credentials

[patch] [2/2] DBusTube: recommend Socket_Access_Control_Credentials

0002-DBusTube-recommend-Socket_Access_Control_Credentials.patch (text/plain), 1.85 KB, created by Simon McVittie on 2011-11-11 08:01:02 UTC

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>From 19f6901c9a054e679a514c6912449d70edfb3fa7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>From: Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>
>Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:59:56 +0000
>Subject: [PATCH 2/2] DBusTube: recommend Socket_Access_Control_Credentials
>
>The two known Tubes implementations (Gabble and Salut) implement it
>using libdbus, where it's actually easier to implement than anything
>else. It'd be equally easy with GDBus, from what I can tell.
>---
> spec/Channel_Type_DBus_Tube.xml | 12 +++++++++++-
> 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/spec/Channel_Type_DBus_Tube.xml b/spec/Channel_Type_DBus_Tube.xml
>index 9615763..74e6595 100644
>--- a/spec/Channel_Type_DBus_Tube.xml
>+++ b/spec/Channel_Type_DBus_Tube.xml
>@@ -174,7 +174,17 @@ Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
> <tp:docstring xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
> A list of the access control types that are supported with this channel.
> Note that only Socket_Access_Control_Localhost and
>- Socket_Access_Control_Credentials can be used with D-Bus tubes.
>+ Socket_Access_Control_Credentials can be used with D-Bus tubes.
>+ Using Socket_Access_Control_Credentials is recommended.
>+
>+ <tp:rationale>
>+ Socket_Access_Control_Credentials is easy to implement for a
>+ D-Bus tube, because typical D-Bus library implementations like
>+ libdbus and GDBus already have to support it to be able to
>+ connect to the system or session bus, and usually enable it
>+ by default; so there's typically no good reason to relax
>+ access control to Localhost.
>+ </tp:rationale>
> 
> When requesting a channel with
> <tp:dbus-ref namespace="org.freedesktop.Telepathy">Connection.Interface.Requests.CreateChannel</tp:dbus-ref>,
>-- 
>1.7.7.2
>

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