Bug 73323

Summary:	Add Agent API to allow desktop to refuse access
Product:	GeoClue	Reporter:	Bastien Nocera <bugzilla>
Component:	General	Assignee:	Geoclue Bugs <geoclue-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Geoclue Bugs <geoclue-bugs>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Bastien Nocera 2014-01-06 14:53:22 UTC

The agent would be implemented in very much the same way as agents in BlueZ or PolicyKit:
- Desktop shell (or other implementation) offers a specific D-Bus service on the system bus
- Agent calls out to system-wide daemon (Geoclue) to register this agent
- Geoclue calls out to the agent to request authorisation

This way, the agent can store authorisation for the various applications on a per-user basis ("allow gnome-settings-daemon", "disallow twitter", etc.).

See the docs in Bluez for the passkey agent:
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/bluetooth/bluez.git/tree/doc/agent-api.txt

See also https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=721433

Comment 1 Zeeshan Ali 2014-01-06 15:10:03 UTC

The geoclue side is already in place for this and we even have a demo agent but since agent is not yet implemented by anyone, you need to explicitly tell geoclue to require agent auth currently through a configure flag.

You asked for link to docs. I'll upload new docs once I roll out a release.

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