Bug 99874

Summary:	make recommended system service naming mandatory
Product:	dbus	Reporter:	Simon McVittie <smcv>
Component:	core	Assignee:	D-Bus Maintainers <dbus>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	D-Bus Maintainers <dbus>
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium
Version:	git master
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Bug Depends on:	99825
Bug Blocks:

Description Simon McVittie 2017-02-20 16:57:43 UTC

dbus-daemon currently has the following unintended behaviour for system services whose filenames are not the canonical name (the well-known name + ".service"):

* Parse whichever service came first in readdir() order (might be the canonical name, or any other name[1]).
* Silently ignore any others.
* If the one that got parsed has a SystemdService set, use that for activation.
* If the one that got parsed does not have a SystemdService set, use the setuid helper for activation - but the setuid helper will load the file that has the canonical name instead (!), or if there is none, activation will fail.

When Bug #99825 lands, [1] will at least become a warning.

For the development branch, I think we should consider tightening this to: if the name is not canonical, just fail to load it. After Bug #99825, this would be easy to do.

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