system-wide daemon

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On Wed, 10.02.10 11:32, Colin Guthrie (gmane at colin.guthr.ie) wrote:

> One is the fact that why should a module be loaded into a system-wide
> component for a specific user? e.g. user A pairs his bluetooth headset
> which will require that the bluetooth sink becomes available - this
> should only be for user A, no other users, but user A is somehow allowed
> to load a module into the system service for this to happen. Users
> loading modules into a system service is generally a security concern
> (which is my most system wide daemons disallow module loading).

Also note that the auth credentials (i.e. PINs) for the bt stuff would
have to be passed to the server, but should be kept private for the
user.

Lennart

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