One connection at a time should be enough for anyone. (Or they can edit
their interfaces file.)

If you're already getting a list of devices to display, couldn't you just
verify that the chosen device matches one of those names? I don't know
what it's like to test for illegal characters in the language you're
using, but I can tell you it's a pain in the ass in bash.

-fsr


On 10/06/2015 03:28 PM, Edward Bartolo wrote:
> 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