On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 01:08:38PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > I don't think you are alone at all in your dislike of dbus. In > > fact, I can't really claim to understand what difference netdev > > made in this case, based on bluetooth.conf. I too am in the > > netdev group on my machine. > > That was with 3.x packages, where the dbus configuration also gave > members of the netdev group permission to send those messages, so > once I added myself into that group, it worked. > > http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-bluetooth/packages/bluez-utils/trunk/debian/bluetooth-dbus.conf?op=file&rev=0&sc=0 > > Unfortunately, your 4.x packages install a dbus policy file that > only relies on at_console, but there is no dependency or > recommendation for libpam-foreground, which seems to be required for > that to work.
JFTR I made an upload of 4.x in experimental, currently sitting in NEW but svn-buildpackage of the current trunk ought to work. (also bluez-gnome updated) [...] > Why it's the netdev group, I don't know. Maybe introducing > a bluetooth group would be better? My reasoning is that controlling bluetooth requires NET_ADMIN capability (see #510644) and netdev seems a good fit, though I'm open to suggestions. filippo -- Filippo Giunchedi - http://esaurito.net - 0x6B79D401 Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time. -- Alan Perlis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
