Hi all. I wonder if dbus daemon supports already anonymous
authentication mode. So if the answer is no is it not too late to ask
to include this feature in 1.2.0? Thanks

On 11/24/07, Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd@luon.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 11:56:25PM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > The 1.1.2 release notes had a plea for someone to audit the setuid
> > helper for system activation, which would still be advisable, but there
> > is not much reason to block 1.2.0 on this.
>
> FWIW before uploading dbus 1.1.2 to Debian i did a minimal audit of the
> setuid
> helper. The code looks good to me as long as you can trust the dbus
> configuration files and service files (Which i think is a pretty fair
> assumption).
>
> Though it would be good for someone to triplecheck the code that does the
> actually dropping from root priviledges to whatever is specified in the
> service
> file. I'm not an expert in that area.
>
>   Sjoerd
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Regards,

Sergey
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