Bug#384680: [Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#384680: bluez-utils: cannot enable authentication by a PIN

[Filippo Giunchedi]

Hello,

>Oyez, oyez!
>I have finally understood what was happening: the link_key_request
>serves as an authentication mechanism thanks to the link key storage in
>/var/lib/bluetooth/<bdaddr> (I noticed this folder's "persistence" by
>chance). Removing the folders under /var/lib/bluetooth/ is sufficient to
>make a new connection fail (if the PINs are set suitably).
>The working of the authentication certainly is not a mistake, but it is
>misleading. Since the documentation is not yet making the bluez packages
>bloated, do you think you could add this information piece in it so that
>another unskilled non-specialist user does not loose his time?
>Respectfully

do you agree that this is documented in README.Debian in recent versions of
bluez-utils (3.7?) if so can be this bug be closed?

thanks,
filippo
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