Reducing Unprioritized Bugs

This Greasemonkey script, Check Priority, will check whether you are modifying a bug assigned to you and leaving its priority at "P5 - None". It will pop up a confirmation box to remind you to set a real priority.
Thanks to Milan Vančura for showing us how b.n.c can be improved (check out also the local time script) and for even implementing this one as I stood behind his back!

YaST Workshop 2008

We had the annual YaST workshop last week. The people in the team boldly went to explore new APIs and one of the results is experimental integration of PolicyKit into YaST. If you really want to break your system, you can try the current code.

D-Bus Spying

I found how to make dbus-monitor show me more than just signals on the system bus. The documentation in dbus-daemon(1) is very terse about that. This is probably insecure, although I don't know of an interesting exploit.

--- /etc/dbus-1/system.conf.orig        2008-05-02 17:08:03.000000000 +0200
+++ /etc/dbus-1/system.conf     2008-05-02 17:08:30.000000000 +0200
@@ -55,6 +55,9 @@
   <allow send_requested_reply="true">
   <allow receive_requested_reply="true">
 </allow>
+  <policy context="mandatory">
+    <allow receive_interface="*" eavesdrop="true">
+  </policy>

 <!-- Config files are placed here that among other things, punch
 holes in the above policy for specific services. -->

Then you need to tell the daemon to reread the config:

# pkill -HUP -u messagebus

BTW I still haven't figured out how to monitor method_return. I guess receive_requested_reply="false" should do it but not sure how. Does anyone know?