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To: Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>, bluez-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
From: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Subject: Re: [Bluez-devel] patch for d-bus support in hcid
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Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 17:13:39 -0700

At 09:42 AM 6/19/2003, 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.
Cool. 
We should really start working on 3.x libs and utils. There are so 
many things and ideas that we want to put in.

Max


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