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| author | Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com> | 2017-07-19 15:52:12 +0100 |
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| committer | Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> | 2017-07-28 11:24:20 +0100 |
| commit | 13a155c5144342b7e02139fb0696e584cc3ad8cb (patch) | |
| tree | 70f997b56d0d6d29cb7cfd62a5886a8f05962982 /doc | |
| parent | ff09f3ba7099aeb3394b04ef5b78928dcd94a71e (diff) | |
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dbus-daemon(1): Be more truthful about the default policy
We don't allow sending unrequested replies, but the documentation
implied that we did.
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Thiago Macieira <thiago@kde.org>
Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92853
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/dbus-daemon.1.xml.in | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/dbus-daemon.1.xml.in b/doc/dbus-daemon.1.xml.in index 447b7fd2..dcaba484 100644 --- a/doc/dbus-daemon.1.xml.in +++ b/doc/dbus-daemon.1.xml.in @@ -779,9 +779,13 @@ they are analogous to a firewall in that they allow expected traffic and prevent unexpected traffic.</para> -<para>Currently, the system bus has a default-deny policy for sending method calls -and owning bus names. Everything else, in particular reply messages, receive -checks, and signals has a default allow policy.</para> +<para> + Currently, the system bus has a default-deny policy for sending method calls + and owning bus names, and a default-allow policy for receiving messages, + sending signals, and sending a single success or error reply for each + method call that does not have the <literal>NO_REPLY</literal> flag. + Sending more than the expected number of replies is not allowed. +</para> <para>In general, it is best to keep system services as small, targeted programs which |