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Thomas Haller d75aae8b26
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meson.build priv-helper: fix D-Bus patch to not contain forbidden character '-' 2022-02-09 18:49:47 +01:00
nm-priv-helper.c all: drop redundant includes 2022-05-09 19:20:18 +02:00
nm-priv-helper.conf priv-helper: fix D-Bus patch to not contain forbidden character '-' 2022-02-09 18:49:47 +01:00
org.freedesktop.nm_priv_helper.service.in priv-helper: remove D-Bus Alias for "nm-priv-helper.service" 2022-02-09 18:49:48 +01:00
README.md nm-sudo: rename to nm-priv-helper 2022-01-11 21:46:55 +01:00

README.md

nm-priv-helper

This is a D-Bus activatable, exit-on-idle service, which provides an internal API to NetworkManager daemon.

This has no purpose for the user, it is an implementation detail of the daemon.

The purpose is that nm-priv-helper can execute certain privileged operations which NetworkManager process is not allowed to. We want to sandbox NetworkManager as much as possible, and nm-priv-helper provides a controlled way to perform some very specific operations.

As such, nm-priv-helper should still be sandboxed too to only being able to execute the operations that are necessary for NetworkManager.

nm-priv-helper will reject all D-Bus requests that are not originating from the current name owner of "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager". That is, it is supposed to only reply to NetworkManager daemon and as such is not useful to the user directly.