Subject: Re: [Bluez-devel] patch for d-bus support in hcid
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@redhat.com>
To: Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 10:28:51 +0100

On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 17:42, Philip Blundell wrote:
> This patch adds support to hcid for PIN requests using D-BUS.  (See
> http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/ if you don't know what D-BUS
> is about.)
> 
> The advantage of this is that the UI for PIN entry runs as the logged-in
> user, rather than root.  There's then no need for the helper application
> to try to guess the value for $DISPLAY or anything like that.
> 
> To use this mechanism, you need to configure bluez-utils with
> --enable-dbus, and set pin-helper to "*dbus" in hcid.conf.

Thanks for doing this. There are now packages in Red Hat Rawhide with
this enabled.... volunteers to provide the GNOME and KDE GUI side for
this welcomed...

-- 
dwmw2


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