forward the dbus session?

[Ben Lindstrom]

Any reason why this has to be an unique feature?  Is there some form  
of authentication cookie or something that needs to be managed?  That  
is really the only reason why X forwarding exists.  Otherwise it could  
also be yet another port tunnel.

- Ben

On Feb 13, 2009, at 5:38 PM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:

> Am I crazy for thinking about forwarding the DBUS session over an ssh
> connection much like the X session is forwarded?
>
> I've proven the concept with socat (to use the unix socket that dbus
> normally listens on rather than reconfiguring dbus to use a tcp  
> socket)
> and it works just as expected.
>
> Any reason we wouldn't want openssh doing this natively?
>
> b.
>
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