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| author | Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk> | 2011-11-11 15:59:56 +0000 |
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| committer | Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk> | 2011-11-11 15:59:56 +0000 |
| commit | 19f6901c9a054e679a514c6912449d70edfb3fa7 (patch) | |
| tree | a8511e3e4ab3962ddb5f62bd5460a306037861ea | |
| parent | 1c5f0ad98d25b7f77870ba541afbbedc65ddc355 (diff) | |
DBusTube: recommend Socket_Access_Control_Credentials
The two known Tubes implementations (Gabble and Salut) implement it
using libdbus, where it's actually easier to implement than anything
else. It'd be equally easy with GDBus, from what I can tell.
| -rw-r--r-- | spec/Channel_Type_DBus_Tube.xml | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/spec/Channel_Type_DBus_Tube.xml b/spec/Channel_Type_DBus_Tube.xml index 96157631..74e65951 100644 --- a/spec/Channel_Type_DBus_Tube.xml +++ b/spec/Channel_Type_DBus_Tube.xml @@ -174,7 +174,17 @@ Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. <tp:docstring xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>A list of the access control types that are supported with this channel. Note that only Socket_Access_Control_Localhost and - Socket_Access_Control_Credentials can be used with D-Bus tubes.</p> + Socket_Access_Control_Credentials can be used with D-Bus tubes. + Using Socket_Access_Control_Credentials is recommended.</p> + + <tp:rationale> + <p>Socket_Access_Control_Credentials is easy to implement for a + D-Bus tube, because typical D-Bus library implementations like + libdbus and GDBus already have to support it to be able to + connect to the system or session bus, and usually enable it + by default; so there's typically no good reason to relax + access control to Localhost.</p> + </tp:rationale> <p>When requesting a channel with <tp:dbus-ref namespace="org.freedesktop.Telepathy">Connection.Interface.Requests.CreateChannel</tp:dbus-ref>, |