"Permission denied" from pand when trying to connect Bluetooth

Hello,

I'm trying to get a Bluetooth-enabled Linux device (Gumstix) to talk
to a Linux PC equipped with a USB-Bluetooth dongle.
I've read various web pages about that and at present
I'm working with the instructions at:
http://fedoranews.org/contributors/muhammad_al_ismail/bluetooth/

From watching /var/log/messages (on both machines)
I can see that the Gumstix repeatedly attempts to connect,
but the host box says "Connection failed. Permission denied".
This is coming from pand. Then of course the Gumstix says
"Connection closed by peer" or some such.

I have /etc/bluetooth/pin containing the same string on both
devices (with "security auto" in hcid.conf).
I also tried "security none" in hcid.conf (killed hcid,
and relaunched it) but that didn't seem to make any difference.

Does anyone know what kind of permission pand is checking,
if it is not the PIN ??

Thanks in advance for any light you can shed on this problem.

Robert Dodier

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