Inside a server callback (those that are magically called by the glib bindings), dbus_connection_get_unix_user is called to get the user id of the client but fails. In _dbus_auth_get_identity, it copies the credentials : "*credentials = auth->authorized_identity". All fields of auth->authorized_identity are set to DBUS_PID_UNSET. Any ideas ?
Are you calling DBusConnection methods on a DBusGConnection?
dbus_g_connection_get_connection is used to convert DBusGConnection to DBusConnection. Hence, dbus_connection_get_unix_user gets the correct connection.
closing
There is a misunderstanding, dbus_connection_get_unix_user gets the correct connection but fails. Actually, I cannot any unit test case for dbus_connection_get_unix_user in dbus.
are you using a tcp connection, or on windows? it won't work in either of those cases.
Neither tcp nor windows is used
Do you have a test case you can attach? What version of D-Bus are you using and on what distribution? BTW Sorry about closing the bug. I thought you said you used the get_connection API and get_unix_user worked.
dbus 0.93, dbus-glib-0.73, fedora core 5 For the test case, just call dbus_connection_get_unix_user inside a call back that are called by the glib binding
Attaching a test case would be nice because of time constraints and we would be sure that it fails on your machine.
The easiest way would be to add a permanent test case in test-dbus-glib.c
As it turns out the code in question was trying to get the unix user from a connection which was opened by the app. You can only get the unix user off of connections passed to a server. I am not sure if the glib bindings can do this yet. The best place to ask is on the mailing list
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