class DBus::External

External authentication class

Class for ‘external’ type authentication.

Public Instance Methods

authenticate() click to toggle source

Performs the authentication.

   # File lib/dbus/auth.rb
36 def authenticate
37   # Take the user id (eg integer 1000) make a string out of it "1000", take
38   # each character and determin hex value "1" => 0x31, "0" => 0x30. You
39   # obtain for "1000" => 31303030 This is what the server is expecting.
40   # Why? I dunno. How did I come to that conclusion? by looking at rbus
41   # code. I have no idea how he found that out.
42   Process.uid.to_s.split(//).map { |d| d.ord.to_s(16) }.join
43 end