Hi everyone, when building NetworkManager on Debian, I get the following warning from lintian, our Debian package checker:
> W: network-manager: dbus-policy-without-send-destination > etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.conf <policy > context="default"><deny > send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.SecretAgent"/> > N: > N: The package contains D-Bus policy configuration that uses one of the > N: send_* conditions, but does not specify a send_destination, and is not > N: specific to root. > N: > N: Rules of the form > N: > N: <allow send_interface="com.example.MyInterface"/> > N: > N: allow messages with the given interface to be sent to <any> service, not > N: just the one installing the rule, which is rarely what was intended. > N: > N: Similarly, on the system bus, rules of the form > N: > N: <deny send_interface="com.example.MyInterface"/> > N: > N: are redundant with the system bus's default-deny policy, and have > N: unintended effects on other services. > N: > N: This check ignores rules of the form > N: > N: <policy user="root"> > N: <allow ... /> > N: </policy> > N: > N: which are commonly used for the "agent" pattern seen in services like > N: BlueZ and NetworkManager: a root-privileged daemon calls out to one or > N: more per-user user interface agent processes with no specific name, so > N: send_destination is not easily applicable. However, such rules should > N: still be made as specific as possible to avoid undesired side-effects. > N: > N: Refer to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18961 and > N: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2008-February/009401.html for > N: details. > N: > N: Severity: normal, Certainty: certain > N: > N: Check: dbus, Type: binary > N: > W: network-manager: dbus-policy-without-send-destination > etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.conf <policy > context="default"><deny send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" > send_member="SetLogging"/> > W: network-manager: dbus-policy-without-send-destination > etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.conf <policy > context="default"><deny send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" > send_member="Sleep"/> > W: network-manager: dbus-policy-without-send-destination > etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.conf <policy > context="default"><deny > send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Settings" > send_member="LoadConnections"/> > W: network-manager: dbus-policy-without-send-destination > etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.conf <policy > context="default"><deny > send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Settings" > send_member="ReloadConnections"/> Regards, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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