Re: key "ownership"

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Frederic Gobry <frederic gobry smartdata ch> writes:
> > No, it doesn't have this feature. (Why the limitation? Just don't
> > write apps that modify it, right?)
> 
> Okay. The idea was to limit "untrusted" applications. It's for
> embedded development, and applications already run in a sandbox for
> other services: I just wanted to know if GConf could provide this
> kind of features out-of-the-box.
> 

Oh, no, definitely not. GConf trusts all clients once it allows them
to connect. (To connect they need the cryptographically-random IOR
stored in ~/.gconfd in the user's home directory.)

Havoc