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  • Committer: teddy at recompile
  • Date: 2012-02-26 11:47:19 UTC
  • mto: (237.7.109 trunk)
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 300.
  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20120226114719-m3odq4s34ebt6hg8
Add facilities for D-Bus interface annotations and use them to mark
the old D-Bus interfaces as deprecated.

* mandos (dbus_interface_annotations): New decorator.
  (DBusObjectWithProperties._is_dbus_property): Removed.  All callers
                                                changed.
  (DBusObjectWithProperties._is_dbus_thing): New; generalized version
                                             of "_is_dbus_property".
  (DBusObjectWithProperties._get_all_dbus_properties): Removed.  All
                                                       callers
                                                       changed.
  (DBusObjectWithProperties._get_all_dbus_things): New; generalized
                                                   version of
                                                   "_get_all_dbus_properties".
  (DBusObjectWithProperties.Introspect): Also add interface
                                         annotation tags.
  (AlternateDBusNamesMetaclass.__new__): Also copy interface
                                         annotations.  Add
                                         "deprecated" annotation on
                                         old interface.
  (ClientDBus._foo): New interface annotation to mark non-compliance
                     with the standard property change signal
                     interface.
  (MandosDBusService): Inherit from DBusObjectWithProperties to get
                       interface annotation support.
  (MandosDBusService._foo): New interface annotation to mark
                            non-compliance with the standard property
                            change signal interface.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2014-06-22">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2012-01-01">
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "common.ent">
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%common;
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]>
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      </para>
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    </refsect2>
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    <refsect2 id="fakecheck">
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      <title>Faking checker results?</title>
 
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    <refsect2 id="fakeping">
 
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      <title>Faking ping replies?</title>
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      <para>
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        If the Mandos client does not have an SSH server, the default
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        is for the Mandos server to use
 
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        The default for the server is to use
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        <quote><literal>fping</literal></quote>, the replies to which
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        could be faked to eliminate the timeout.  But this could
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        easily be changed to any shell command, with any security
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        measures you like.  If the Mandos client
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        <emphasis>has</emphasis> an SSH server, the default
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        configuration (as generated by
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        <command>mandos-keygen</command> with the
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        <option>--password</option> option) is for the Mandos server
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        to use an <command>ssh-keyscan</command> command with strict
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        keychecking, which can not be faked.  Alternatively, IPsec
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        could be used for the ping packets, making them secure.
 
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        measures you like.  It could, for instance, be changed to an
 
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        SSH command with strict keychecking, which could not be faked.
 
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        Or IPsec could be used for the ping packets, making them
 
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        secure.
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      </para>
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    </refsect2>
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  </refsect1>