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		tremon 2 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Problems with D-Bus on the Linux desktop systemd accepts commands from the system bus (i.e. the dbus instance running as uid 0). User desktops have their own session bus, which runs as the user.

chasil 2 days ago [–]

Thanks, that makes sense.

Still, for user-level systemd, that means the bus is open to any binary running with the user's credentials.

This is not any worse than the risk of running ssh-agent, though.

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