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DBus::External

External authentication class

Class for 'external' type authentication.

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authenticate() click to toggle source

Performs the authentication.

# File lib/dbus/auth.rb, line 31
def authenticate
  # Take the user id (eg integer 1000) make a string out of it "1000", take
  # each character and determin hex value "1" => 0x31, "0" => 0x30. You
  # obtain for "1000" => 31303030 This is what the server is expecting.
  # Why? I dunno. How did I come to that conclusion? by looking at rbus
  # code. I have no idea how he found that out.
  return Process.uid.to_s.split(//).collect { |a| "%x" % a[0].ord }.join
end

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