[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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