bt dev questions

[Alex Samorukov]

Maksim Yevmenkin wrote:
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>>  1) Why sdpd require root permission to open session? As for me it`s enough
>> to check use file permissions on control socket. In Linux its possible to
>> register service w/o root permissions, so in ported version I need to run it
>> as root and then setuid to normal user.  What is the reason for this?
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> to have better control over what services are offered. basically, i do
> not want to have any random application go and register bunch of
> non-existent services. requiring 'root' permission is may be a little
> bit excessive, but its easy to fix. could teach sdpd to accept
> connections from specified group (or even list of groups/users).
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Yes, i think that its enough to have group, with sdpd r/w permission. 
Because I don`t like setgid/setuid, and this will allow to avoid this in 
bt services.
>>  2) I was not able to find how to change provider name and server
>> description in SDP_SERVICE_CLASS_SERIAL_PORT profile. anyRemote using usual
>> serial over bluetooth, but with changed service name field. I found howto
>> change channel (server_channel) but not description. Is it possible at all?
>>     
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> not at this time.
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ok, np )
>>  I`m planning to submit my patches to the ports tree at nearest time.
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> thanks for your work.
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Thank you too. Author answered that he will include my patches to the 
next version, so soon anyRemote will work in freebsd out of the box.