[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] [Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#510644: bluetooth.conf needs alterations for new D-Bus

[Colin Walters]

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Marcel Holtmann <marcel at holtmann.org> wrote:
>
> that is exactly how it works and we can't use signal. Even directed
> signal are not working since the method call into the agent has to
> return the result or an error.
>
> What problem do you guys actually have with this? The agent inside
> bluez-gnome is verifying that the method comes from the daemon it
> registers its agent with and thus there is not even a security issue
> here with trying to send arbitrary method calls to the UI.

I talked with davidz about this on IRC in a bit more high bandwidth
mode; he's doing something similar with PolicyKit.  I think if the
rule is of the form:

<allow send_interface="org.bluez.Agent" send_path="/org/bluez/Agent"/>

that's probably fine.  It does allow any process to send any message
with that interface and path to any other, but we're in a similar
situation with signals anyways right now.  I wouldn't call it a
problem even if it's just an <allow send_interface>, but ideally we
don't have many of these since they're not as strong as <allow
send_destination>.