D-Bus overview

https://fedoramagazine.org/d-bus-overview/#more-39479

by rbanffy • 3 years ago

19 7 3 years ago

I hoped this would talk about network transparency and authorization. I haven’t learned D-Bus yet, but when I see statements like “logged-in user” I get concerned about obsolete assumptions of a single desktop not backed by datacenters.

1273613• 3 years ago

I've managed to excise D-Bus and other toxic freedesktop.org (Red Hat / GNOME) garbage from my Debian system. And it's still a fully usable desktop environment. Nearly everything works.

The removal process is quite spectacular, you can see apt delete hundreds of interrelated dependencies, one after another. So satisfying to see it all go.

kichimi• 3 years ago

But why?

viraptor• 3 years ago

You're looking at the wrong technology then. Dbus is aimed very much at local use and Unix socket connections which authenticate the processes sending messages. It's not an obsolete assumption for dbus because that's all it does / where it's needed.

You need something different for your plans. Maybe look at zeromq for example? Or redis? Or some other pubsub stuff?

badrabbit• 3 years ago

Not always well secured : https://book.hacktricks.xyz/linux-hardening/privilege-escala...

D-Bus overview

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