Hi,

Now, the frontend can create a text file to declare a default wifi and
ethernet devices. Since this file is writable by ordinary unprivileged
users, and because the file will be used by the backend to decide
which devices to use in cases where such a file exists, I am thinking
about validating the device names before using popen or execl. The
validation will check for illegal characters like shell delimiters
which can be inserted by malicious users to run malicious commands. My
impression is that device names will be composed of letters from the
English alphabet and digits with all other characters unallowed.

With the backend directly accessing the text file, additional
parameters to define the network interface to use will be avoided for
both Connect and Disconnect. This means, the backend command set will
remain unaltered.

Edward


On 06/10/2015, Edward Bartolo <edbarx@???> wrote:
>>Is it possible to run more than one instance of netman?
>
> No, only the previous versions allow more than one instance of netman
> to run. The current one I am working on (not yet pushed to git)
> prevents users from running more than one instance.
>
> Edward
>
> On 06/10/2015, Clarke Sideroad <clarke.sideroad@???> wrote:
>> On 10/06/2015 09:24 AM, Edward Bartolo wrote:
>>> In the case of more than one wifi and/or more than one ethernet
>>> connector, netman will either use decide by itself to use a device
>>> from the available list or choose a device from the defaults set by
>>> the user.
>>>
>>> I think, netman should not support more than one active connection as
>>> is currently the case.
>>>
>>> Please give feedback so that I start to work on the backend.
>>>
>>>
>> There are cases when multiple connections and networks do come in handy,
>> but I think in those cases we are dealing with things that might be
>> better off started separately going back to the basics. AFAIK Wicd only
>> handles one connection at a time.
>>
>> Is it possible to run more than one instance of netman?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Clarke
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