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DBus configuration wild card

I would like to add rules to my DBus configuration file (in /etc/dbus-1/system.d/MyConfig.conf) which include the wildcard character '*'

For example if I add the line <allow own="*"/> then any owner is allowed. If I replace this with <allow own="com.MyDomain.MyName"/> then this limits to a single name.

But what I would like is <allow own="com.MyDomain.*"/> but this does not seem to work.

Does anyone have a suggestion of how to achieve this?

Thanks

Solution

  • I finally found the information in the dbus-daemon document

    From the manual:

    Complex globs like "foo.bar.*" aren't allowed for now because they'd be work to implement and maybe encourage sloppy security...

    <allow own_prefix="a.b"/> allows you to own the name "a.b" or any name whose first dot-separated elements are "a.b"

    This covers what I was trying to achieve