On Tue, 16.03.10 08:38, Rex Dieter (rdie...@math.unl.edu) wrote:
>
> Juha Tuomala wrote:
>
> > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179006#c5
> >> in the current version of Akonadi server you can specify a custom
> >> socket path by entering
> >>
> >> [Connection]
> >> SocketDirectory=/tmp/akonadi-myuser/
> >>
> >> into $HOME/.config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc
> >
> > How about setting that as default, away from $HOME that can be a NFS
> > filesystem?
>
> Indeed, a solution similar to kde's
> ~/.kde/socket-<hostname> => /tmp/ksocket-<username>
> symlink is likely needed here too.
If KDE really does this, it is really broken.
<hostname> is unsuitable for use cases like this, since on many
Fedora/RH systems it is just "localhost". And then very often it is
highly dynamic, sometimes even changing with DHCP.
If you want to identify a machine, use the D-Bus machine id. If you
don't want to link against the libdbus libraries (which you probably
should), then at least read /var/lib/dbus/machine-id and use that
(possibly with a fallback to the hostname, in case the admin is a nut).
The dbus machine id is the only suitable ID for usecases like this: it
is static, bound to the installation, and widely available.
In addition to this <username> is unsuitable for use cases like this
too, since it opens the door to DoS attacks by other users since they
can guess you socket path and create the socket and hence make it
impossible for you to use it.
If you want to do this properly, do something like this:
~/.kde/socket-<dbusid> → /tmp/ksocket-<random>/socket
Lennart
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