dbus system bus switching to non-permissive soon for F11

[Matthias Clasen]

On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 08:18 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 09:33 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I plan to switch the DBus system bus away from the "permissive"
> > release to the one which closes
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18229
> > relatively soon in the Fedora 11 tree.
> > 
> > I've been going through bugzillas and getting policies upstream for a
> > while, and I think the vast majority of things are fixed now.  The
> > permissive mode has been in rawhide for some time, and will have been
> > generating messages of the form:
> > 
> >     Feb  2 12:17:38 space-ghost dbus: Rejected send message, 20
> > matched rules; type="method_return", sender=":1.19" (uid=0 pid=2863
> > comm="/usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wp")
> > interface="(unset)" member="(unset)" error name="(unset)"
> > requested_reply=0 destination=":1.18" (uid=0 pid=2852
> > comm="NetworkManager --pid-file=/var/run/NetworkManager/"))
> > 
> > in syslog.  If you're seeing these and I didn't find your bugzilla,
> > and don't know how to fix, please ask for help at
> > dbus at lists.freedesktop.org or #dbus on Freenode.
> 
> 
> Given that next week is the Feature freeze, and that gives maintainers a
> week to do integration work on the features, done something as
> disruptive as this should happen sooner rather than later.  Landing
> everything the last week before beta freeze leads to a crappy freeze and
> a lengthy freeze which just holds up further bugfixing.

If you read Colins message carefully, he says that he has been fixing
things over the last weeks/months, so most things should be prepared for
it at this point.