Attachment 138789 Details for Bug 106004 – 3/9] spec: Expand on how tcp connections are normally authenticated

[patch] 3/9] spec: Expand on how tcp connections are normally authenticated

0003-spec-Expand-on-how-tcp-connections-are-normally-auth.patch (text/plain), 1.19 KB, created by Simon McVittie on 2018-04-12 13:19:39 UTC

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Created: 2018-04-12 13:19:39 UTC

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>From 72b2f40954cfb30662c2c3b8363e7b395d5beecd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>From: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
>Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 13:55:25 +0100
>Subject: [PATCH 3/9] spec: Expand on how tcp connections are normally
> authenticated
>
>Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
>---
> doc/dbus-specification.xml | 7 +++++--
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/doc/dbus-specification.xml b/doc/dbus-specification.xml
>index b79d9ae3..a2c8b192 100644
>--- a/doc/dbus-specification.xml
>+++ b/doc/dbus-specification.xml
>@@ -3722,8 +3722,11 @@
>       </para>
>       <para>
>         On Windows and most Unix platforms, the TCP stack is unable to transfer
>-        credentials over a TCP connection, so the EXTERNAL authentication
>-        mechanism does not work for this transport.
>+        credentials over a TCP connection, so the
>+        <link linkend="auth-mechanisms-external">EXTERNAL</link>
>+        authentication mechanism does not work for this transport.
>+        The <link linkend="auth-mechanisms-sha">DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1</link>
>+        mechanism is normally used instead.
>       </para>
>       <para>
>         All <literal>tcp</literal> addresses are listenable.
>-- 
>2.17.0
>

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