On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 23:20 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 22:12 -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > ssh forwarding would work for DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS exactly as it > > does for DISPLAY, and would also encrypt/compress the protocol stream. > > The problem of course is that someone has to patch ssh. > > Yea, so this wouldn't even require the TCP/IP bits. I wonder how a > server on the session bus would determine if a caller is remote; he > probably wouldn't be able to since ssh would make this transparent. > > As such, the mechanisms employed by gvfs to set up peer to peer dbus > connections / UNIX domain sockets would have to take machine uuid's [1] > into account and fall back to session bus communication if server and > client machine uuid's differ.
It doesn't have to use uuids. It can just fall back to this when opening the peer-to-peer connection fails. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander Larsson Red Hat, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] He's an ungodly ninja cyborg who dotes on his loving old ma. She's a time-travelling nymphomaniac safe cracker living homeless in New York's sewers. They fight crime! _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list