Bug 45914

Summary:	system bus eavesdropping doesn't give methods by default
Product:	dbus	Reporter:	Colin Walters <walters>
Component:	core	Assignee:	D-Bus Maintainers <dbus>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	D-Bus Maintainers <dbus>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	chengwei.yang.cn, msniko14
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

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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