On 03/31/2011 05:01 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 16:39 +0300, Leonid Yurchenko wrote:
Hi all.
(is you saw this already - sorry for repeating mail, but previous seems
to be stuck somewhere)
I'm writing a geoclue provider that requires root permissions. In
particular it requires access to wifi driver via wireless tools
(initiate a scan). All is working perfectly when I start client
application with sudo. But obviously I want a regular user to be able to
use this provider without sudoing. How can I achieve this?
Why does it need that? I would expect connman, or NetworkManager to be
able to provide you with the details of nearby APs. In fact, that's
already how the skyhook provider works.
Hi, Bastien. Thanks for your answer.
As far as I know, both connman and NetworkManager are unable to initiate
a scan. They are passively collecting available access points. That
isn't enough for my case, I need to get freshest APs, and initiate a
wifi scan (that's easily done with wireless_tools, but requires superuser).
Isn't it possible to dbus service to be automatically launched by demand
with root privileges?
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