[gnome-bluetooth] What stuff in gnome-bluetooth does, and ideas for its future

Edd Dumbill edd at usefulinc.com
Thu Jan 29 15:32:00 GMT 2004


On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 15:22, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Edd,
> 
> > Well, these changes would definitely make me much happier.  From a user
> > interface level the user needs some visual feedback whether they're
> > paired or not.  Often "permission denied" means they've forgotten to
> > pair, but we need to find a nice way to tell the user this when it
> > happens.
> 
> but you can't use the link key database for it. The link keys must be
> stored with the highest possible security and this means that they
> should only be readable and writable by root.

OK, I can see this.  But it wouldn't be a violation if hcid maintained a
file with a list of devices with which it was paired?  That's really the
information we're after.  Well, that, and the ability to delete a link
key.

-- Edd



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