Re: nm-system-settings.conf

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 18:47 +0530, renu abraham wrote:
> Hi I have patched system using the latest patches from Red hat site
> and met with following configuration change in the below file
> 
> FILE:   /etc/dbus-1/system.d/nm-system-settings.conf
> 
> CHANGES: 
> 
> OLD File Entry 
> 
> 
> 
> <deny
> send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSettings.Secrets"/>
> 
> 
> NEW ENTRY
> 
> <deny
> send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSettings.Connection.Secrets"/>
> 
> 
> I Would line to know the significance of this. What difference it make

This fixes the dbus permissions to ensure that only authorized callers
(ie root) can request secrets from the user's session.  The "OLD ENTRY"
you list was incorrect because the code didn't use that interface name
to export secrets over D-Bus.

Dan