Re: about using privileged (KAuth) helpers: system dbus daemon on OS X?
Thiago Macieira <[email protected]>
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On domingo, 18 de setembro de 2016 10:03:54 PDT René J.V. Bertin wrote: > On Saturday September 17 2016 20:24:22 Thiago Macieira wrote: > >On sábado, 17 de setembro de 2016 21:37:15 PDT René J.V. Bertin wrote: > >> I can only presume this is the case on Linux too, but how then can it > >> connect to the user's session bus there? > > > >It can't. > > So is it normal that the helper process is launched by the system dbus? If > so, can someone please explain how the helper procedure is supposed to play > out at the level of dbus communication? dbus-daemon launches helper, helper sets the environment up to avoid any leak of information from the daemon but also to setuid correctly, then execs the target process. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ dbus mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dbus