[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/4 v4] package/dbus-broker: new package

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Mon Jul 6 19:01:04 UTC 2020


Norbert, All,

On 2020-07-06 19:34 +0200, Yann E. MORIN spake thusly:
> On 2020-07-06 01:21 +0200, Norbert Lange spake thusly:
> > Am So., 5. Juli 2020 um 12:23 Uhr schrieb Yann E. MORIN
> > <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>:
[--SNIP--]
> > > dbus-broker code does not have a provision, like the original dbus has,
> > > to specify the user to run as, and does not interpret the <user>
> > > directive in the system.conf file. Since running the bus daemon as root
> > > is not so safe, we create a systemd unit drop-in to complement the unit
> > > provided by the package and defione the user to run as.
> > I thought we both agreed last time that dbus-broker does read the config and
> > switch to the uid  (you did convince me of that ! ;) ) ? see [1]
> So I too was pretty much surprised by this, because that was indeed what
> I remembered. But the run time test did not work. Maybe it was too late
> in the night again, so I'll double check once more to be extra sure.

So thanks for having me double-and-triple check: this drop-in to specify
the user is not needed, indeed. I'll drop it in a followup respin.

Not sure what hapenned; probably late-at-night hacking is not good
anymore for me...

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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