[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#412179: D-Bus interface

[Michael Biebl]

Kel Modderman wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> On Saturday 03 March 2007 12:22, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> you will also very likely need the attached patch:
>> Debian does not use pam_console but uses group membership to control
>> access to D-Bus. Activating both options in the conf file makes it work
>> on Debian and Ubuntu.
> 
> Thanks very much.
> 
>> About activating the service, you will very likely have to provide a
>> D-Bus init script (for /etc/dbus-1/event.d/) comparable to the one from
>> dhcdbd.
> 
> Ok. How would the sequnce number of the wpa_supplicant event.d scriplet be 
> determined?

NetworkManager 0.7.x is currently the only application I know of, which
uses the D-Bus interface of wpa_supplicant. It runs at 25, so, yeah, 23
should be fine.


> Attached is the patch I recently commited to SVN, can you please check it?
> 
> Also, an experimental package has been prepared at:
> 
> http://users.tpg.com.au/sigm/debian/pkg-wpa/wpasupplicant_0.6.0~cvs20070224-1.dsc
> 

Seems to work fine here, although I can't really test the D-Bus
interface. NetworkManager 0.7 from SVN is currently horribly broken and
immediately crashes after startup (not because of wpa_supplicant I might
add).

Maybe it would make sense to provide a /etc/default/wpasupplicant with a
var DAEMON_START or the like which defaults to 0. The D-Bus init script
would check this var and so it would be easy to enable/disable the D-Bus
service.
IIRC avahi-daemon does it similar.
With no application using the D-Bus interface atm. (NM 0.7 will still
take some time to be released) I think people would complain if we start
wpa_supplicant by default.
On the other hand, if wpa_action could be made to reuse the running
D-Bus enabled wpa_supplicant instance instead of spawning its own copy
(dunno if that would be possible/sensible) it would be different.

Cheers,
Michael



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