Ubuntu
bluez-utils package

HIDD periphericals are disabled by default

Bug #59894 reported by Anthony Mercatante
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
bluez-utils (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Wishlist
Bluetooth
Nominated for Feisty by Simon Ruggier

Bug Description

By default, connecting a HIDD peripherical requires to sudo hidd --connect "mac_address" at every boot since hidd is disabled in /etc/default/bluetooth file.

Changing HIDD_ENABLED from 0 to 1 makes connection far more easy since you just have to perform the sudo hidd --connect thing once and for all, and it'll work at reboot.

I think that the first manual connection avoids security issues.

There are dozens of messages on ubuntu boards complaining that hidd is hard to handle, so that could be a good way to make it easier I think.

Anthony Mercatante (tonio)
Changed in bluez-utils:
importance: Untriaged → Wishlist
Revision history for this message
Onkar Shinde (onkarshinde) wrote :

This could go in edgy. It is just one line of change.

Changed in bluez-utils:
assignee: nobody → bluetooth
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Anthony Mercatante (tonio) wrote :

The point is that this can be considered a security issue, even though that shouldn't cause any problem in my opinion, since the first connection of a peripherical (sudo hidd --connect _macaddress_) still has to be done once for the peripherical to be locally created.
The interest of activating this is that it avoids scripting or modifing /etc/default/bluetooth to make the reconnection at boot automatic.
Martin, any opinion concerning the security ?

Revision history for this message
Mario Limonciello (superm1) wrote :

As of hardy, the packages do have HID support enabled. It isn't using the traditional hidd binary, but rather the "Input service"

Changed in bluez-utils:
status: Confirmed → Won't Fix
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