Bug#515681: synce-hal: only root can use connection

[Sascha Silbe]

Package: synce-hal
Version: 0.1-1
Severity: important




Steps to reproduce:
1. unlock device as root (e.g. using synce-unlock.py)
2. synce-pls

Actual result:


Expected result:
Directory listing


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
   APT prefers stable
   APT policy: (990, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages synce-hal depends on:
ii  dhcp3-client               3.1.1-6       DHCP client
ii  hal                        0.5.11-8      Hardware Abstraction Layer

ii  libgnet2.0-0               2.0.8-1       GNet network library


synce-hal recommends no packages.

synce-hal suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

CU Sascha

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synce-hal doesn't configure a DBus policy, so the default of denying everyone except root will get used. In other words: only root can use the connection to the device (to unlock, transfer files, synchronize, ...). ** (process:19044): CRITICAL **: synce_info_from_hal: Failed to get a connection for /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_80_00_60_0f_e8_00: Fischbuechse: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.17" (uid=8193 pid=19044 comm="synce-pls ") interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Synce" member="RequestConnection" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination="org.freedesktop.Hal" (uid=0 pid=18806 comm="/usr/sbin/hald ")) ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.1-5 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.76-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.6-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libhal1 0.5.11-8 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libsynce0 0.11.1-1etch1 Helper library for SynCE, a tool t ii net-tools 1.60-22 The NET-3 networking toolkit ii ppp 2.4.4rel-10.1 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - da ii python 2.5.2-3 An interactive high-level object-o

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