On 03/31/2011 06:52 PM, Michael Leibowitz wrote:
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).
The connman manager has a method called RequestScan()
http://git.kernel.org/?p=network/connman/connman.git;a=blob;f=doc/manager-api.txt;h=332f6cdaf400e6427e490cbeb62511a3bf6a1184;hb=HEAD
Thank you, I'll look into possibility to move to connman.
Isn't it possible to dbus service to be automatically launched by demand
with root privileges?
On the System bus, sure. On the session bus, it's a bad idea. You
could have a setuid helper or something, but I think what you are trying
to do is done by the connection managers, so you might as well use them.
Is it technically possible to create geoclue provider and place it on a
system bus? Will it be recognized by a regular geoclue clients? I tried
to place it's service definition to /usr/share/dbus-1/system/services/
and to add permissions file to /etc/dbus-1/system.d/ (allowing user to
own, to send and to work with interfaces for my provider) - but still
regular geoclue clients are unable to get location from it (and started
with sudo as well - so when moved to system-services - it's disappeared
for regular geoclue clients).
I saw that geoclue has switch to be built to use system bus, but
building replacement for default build of geoclue (and unstable one - I
saw problems reported with building geoclue on system bus) - isn't seems
like a solution.
Thanks,
Leonid.
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