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author | Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk> | 2012-03-27 15:05:51 +0100 |
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committer | Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk> | 2012-03-27 15:05:56 +0100 |
commit | a183a33fb5bceefe53d60d584f352ca0b61667e1 (patch) | |
tree | b62feb8923a9dff08d48c26cf45db23639533c38 /doc | |
parent | 2460ddfdb2c1980226593e1af42117b38d5be7dc (diff) | |
parent | f1cfc138efc2af0763a51ae665ea50096f613512 (diff) | |
download | dbus-a183a33fb5bceefe53d60d584f352ca0b61667e1.tar.gz |
Merge remote-tracking branch 'alban/own_prefix2'
Reviewed-by: Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>
Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46273
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diff --git a/doc/dbus-daemon.1.in b/doc/dbus-daemon.1.in index b063e643..53856e91 100644 --- a/doc/dbus-daemon.1.in +++ b/doc/dbus-daemon.1.in @@ -501,6 +501,7 @@ The possible attributes of these elements are: eavesdrop="true" | "false" own="name" + own_prefix="name" user="username" group="groupname" .fi @@ -573,6 +574,15 @@ like "foo.bar.*" aren't allowed for now because they'd be work to implement and maybe encourage sloppy security anyway. .PP +<allow own_prefix="a.b"/> allows you to own the name "a.b" or any +name whose first dot-separated elements are "a.b": in particular, +you can own "a.b.c" or "a.b.c.d", but not "a.bc" or "a.c". +This is useful when services like Telepathy and ReserveDevice +define a meaning for subtrees of well-known names, such as +org.freedesktop.Telepathy.ConnectionManager.(anything) +and org.freedesktop.ReserveDevice1.(anything). + +.PP It does not make sense to deny a user or group inside a <policy> for a user or group; user/group denials can only be inside context="default" or context="mandatory" policies. |