diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 54c623de..e5d4d75d 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ XdgApp-1.0.*
 /tests/hello*.xdgapp
 /tests/platform*.xdgapp
 /tests/repo
+/tests/package_version.txt
 *.test
 /tests/*.sh.log
 /tests/*.sh.test
diff --git a/tests/session.conf.in b/tests/session.conf.in
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..307f84ae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/session.conf.in
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+<!DOCTYPE busconfig PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD D-Bus Bus Configuration 1.0//EN"
+ "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd">
+<busconfig>
+  <!-- Our well-known bus type, don't change this -->
+  <type>session</type>
+
+  <!-- If we fork, keep the user's original umask to avoid affecting
+       the behavior of child processes. -->
+  <keep_umask/>
+
+  <listen>unix:tmpdir=/tmp</listen>
+
+  <servicedir>@testdir@/services</servicedir>
+
+  <!-- disabled for now; this causes gnome-keyring to be spawned, which can
+       interfere with user's real keyrings, as well as causing long delays
+       during D-BUS activation -->
+  <!-- <standard_session_servicedirs /> -->
+
+  <policy context="default">
+    <!-- Allow everything to be sent -->
+    <allow send_destination="*" eavesdrop="true"/>
+    <!-- Allow everything to be received -->
+    <allow eavesdrop="true"/>
+    <!-- Allow anyone to own anything -->
+    <allow own="*"/>
+  </policy>
+
+  <include if_selinux_enabled="yes" selinux_root_relative="yes">contexts/dbus_contexts</include>
+
+  <!-- For the session bus, override the default relatively-low limits 
+       with essentially infinite limits, since the bus is just running 
+       as the user anyway, using up bus resources is not something we need 
+       to worry about. In some cases, we do set the limits lower than 
+       "all available memory" if exceeding the limit is almost certainly a bug, 
+       having the bus enforce a limit is nicer than a huge memory leak. But the 
+       intent is that these limits should never be hit. -->
+
+  <!-- the memory limits are 1G instead of say 4G because they can't exceed 32-bit signed int max -->
+  <limit name="max_incoming_bytes">1000000000</limit>
+  <limit name="max_incoming_unix_fds">250000000</limit>
+  <limit name="max_outgoing_bytes">1000000000</limit>
+  <limit name="max_outgoing_unix_fds">250000000</limit>
+  <limit name="max_message_size">1000000000</limit>
+  <limit name="max_message_unix_fds">4096</limit>
+  <limit name="service_start_timeout">120000</limit>  
+  <limit name="auth_timeout">240000</limit>
+  <limit name="max_completed_connections">100000</limit>  
+  <limit name="max_incomplete_connections">10000</limit>
+  <limit name="max_connections_per_user">100000</limit>
+  <limit name="max_pending_service_starts">10000</limit>
+  <limit name="max_names_per_connection">50000</limit>
+  <limit name="max_match_rules_per_connection">50000</limit>
+  <limit name="max_replies_per_connection">50000</limit>
+
+</busconfig>