Controlling Authentication

For example, if you only want to allow D-Bus connections from processes owned by the same uid as the server, you would use a signal handler like the following:

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static gboolean
on_authorize_authenticated_peer (GDBusAuthObserver *observer,
                                 GIOStream         *stream,
                                 GCredentials      *credentials,
                                 gpointer           user_data)
{
  gboolean authorized;

  authorized = FALSE;
  if (credentials != NULL)
    {
      GCredentials *own_credentials;
      own_credentials = g_credentials_new ();
      if (g_credentials_is_same_user (credentials, own_credentials, NULL))
        authorized = TRUE;
      g_object_unref (own_credentials);
    }

  return authorized;
}

g_dbus_auth_observer_new ()

GDBusAuthObserver *
g_dbus_auth_observer_new (void);

Creates a new GDBusAuthObserver object.

Since 2.26

g_dbus_auth_observer_authorize_authenticated_peer ()

gboolean
g_dbus_auth_observer_authorize_authenticated_peer
                               (GDBusAuthObserver *observer,
                                GIOStream *stream,
                                GCredentials *credentials);

Emits the “authorize-authenticated-peer” signal on observer .

Since 2.26

g_dbus_auth_observer_allow_mechanism ()

gboolean
g_dbus_auth_observer_allow_mechanism (GDBusAuthObserver *observer,
                                      const gchar *mechanism);

Emits the “allow-mechanism” signal on observer .

Since 2.34

GDBusAuthObserver

typedef struct _GDBusAuthObserver GDBusAuthObserver;

The GDBusAuthObserver structure contains only private data and should only be accessed using the provided API.

Since 2.26

The “allow-mechanism” signal

gboolean
user_function (GDBusAuthObserver *observer,
               gchar             *mechanism,
               gpointer           user_data)

Emitted to check if mechanism is allowed to be used.

Flags: Run Last

Since 2.34

The “authorize-authenticated-peer” signal

gboolean
user_function (GDBusAuthObserver *observer,
               GIOStream         *stream,
               GCredentials      *credentials,
               gpointer           user_data)

Emitted to check if a peer that is successfully authenticated is authorized.

Flags: Run Last

Since 2.26