Bug 45914 - system bus eavesdropping doesn't give methods by default
Summary: system bus eavesdropping doesn't give methods by default
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 46787
Alias: None
Product: dbus
Classification: Unclassified
Component: core (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
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Assignee: D-Bus Maintainers
QA Contact: D-Bus Maintainers
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Reported: 2012-02-10 14:30 UTC by Colin Walters
Modified: 2015-01-22 17:20 UTC (History)
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Description Colin Walters 2012-02-10 14:30:54 UTC 
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2010-April/012539.html

What we need is a management socket that's authenticated separately.  See e.g. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24307#c8

I think the reason eavesdropping isn't enabled on the system bus is because we only have uid-based access control, and I'm uncomfortable with allowing any say uid 0 process to snoop on all traffic just by default.

If we have a separate management interface we could e.g. apply SELinux policy to it as well.
Comment 1 Simon McVittie 2014-09-23 14:12:51 UTC 
undoing abusive changes
Comment 2 Simon McVittie 2015-01-22 17:20:17 UTC 
Resolving this as a dup of 46787 rather than the other way round, because there's more discussion over there

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 46787 ***

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