[PATCH] More lenient D-Bus policy

Zeeshan Ali Khattak zeeshanak
Sun May 25 03:10:54 PDT 2014


On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 7:46 AM, Johannes Berg
<johannes at sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-05-24 at 17:11 +0100, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>> It doesn't make sense to deny all non-root users access to all D-Bus API.
>> Lets at least give everyone the ability to receive signals, read
>> properties and introspect.
>
> Introspect seems fine, but signals and properties might contain private
> data like wifi keys?

Thats a fair point. I see that the following interfaces don't have any
private data so I'll provide a v2 of this patch with only granting
access to them:

fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1
fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1.Interface
fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1.BSS

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
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