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| author | Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com> | 2018-04-12 13:55:25 +0100 |
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| committer | Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com> | 2018-04-25 16:41:21 +0100 |
| commit | ad5036f1bdafa62740f1086b2768738e38605a32 (patch) | |
| tree | 8d71d892dbf7a80b8bd41fd54bbcc1cba26d247e /doc | |
| parent | ee0e42ae2d157a5d4c9d5f1a9114632897bc47ad (diff) | |
| download | dbus-ad5036f1bdafa62740f1086b2768738e38605a32.tar.gz | |
spec: Expand on how tcp connections are normally authenticated
Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106004
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/dbus-specification.xml | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/dbus-specification.xml b/doc/dbus-specification.xml index fc6bb170..88e7d5a1 100644 --- a/doc/dbus-specification.xml +++ b/doc/dbus-specification.xml @@ -3727,8 +3727,11 @@ </para> <para> On Windows and most Unix platforms, the TCP stack is unable to transfer - credentials over a TCP connection, so the EXTERNAL authentication - mechanism does not work for this transport. + credentials over a TCP connection, so the + <link linkend="auth-mechanisms-external">EXTERNAL</link> + authentication mechanism does not work for this transport. + The <link linkend="auth-mechanisms-sha">DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1</link> + mechanism is normally used instead. </para> <para> Developers are sometimes tempted to use remote TCP as a debugging |