Class: DBus::External

Inherits:
Authenticator show all
Defined in:
lib/dbus/auth.rb

Overview

External authentication class

Class for ‘external’ type authentication.

Instance Method Summary collapse

Methods inherited from Authenticator

#name

Instance Method Details

#authenticate ⇒ Object

Performs the authentication.



36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
 
# File 'lib/dbus/auth.rb', line 36

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.
  Process.uid.to_s.split(//).map { |d| d.ord.to_s(16) }.join
end