On Tue, 2015-07-07 at 07:11 +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Tue, 2015-07-07 at 06:31 +0200, Alexander Holler wrote: > > Am 06.07.2015 um 15:17 schrieb Bastien Nocera: > > > Hey, > > > > > > I don't understand the reason why plugins/sixaxis.c doesn't set > > > the > > > device as trusted when plugged in. > > > > It's because of security. If you trust a bluetooth device on Linux, > > > > you're trusting it for all services. In case of the sixaxis it > > means > > you're not only trusting it (the BT-MAC) as an input device, but > > also > > as > > a network device. > > > > Now if you trust any plugged in device which says it's a sixaxis, I > > > > would tell my arduino to say it's an sixaxis with a MAC from one of > > > > my > > BT-dongles to get a magic device which gives me wireless remote > > access > > on every linux box with BT when I plug it in once. > > > > That means you want user interaction, besides just plugging in a > > device. > > What should the pairing process look like then? Because the current > workflow is absolutely dreadful. To solve that problem, I would: 1) disable the pairing altogether if there's no agent running 2) request auth to connect to the computer when the device is getting plugged in, not X minutes later when you want to start using the joypad wirelessly -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
