Re: DBus permissions

[Tambet Ingo <tambet gmail com>]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 14:40, Michael Biebl <biebl debian org> wrote:
> Tambet Ingo wrote:
>> Attached patches fix DBus permissions for all NetworkManager pieces
>> (NM, nm-applet, vpn plugins). For more information, see
>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2009-January/010807.html
> wouldn't it make sense though, to keep the default deny rules in case you are
> still using an older dbus version? They don't hurt and would make it easier to
> provide backports for already released distros.

The security issue has always been there, so if your distro intends to
update NM, surely it would want to fix DBus security issues as well?
Also, from distro's perspective, wouldn't it be easier to just change
the default rule than add deny policies to each and every policy file?

Tambet