[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#547347: consolekit: Creates TAGFILES in /var/run/console for ssh connections

Daniel Hess daniel at rio-grande.ping.de
Fri Sep 18 20:16:44 UTC 2009


Package: consolekit
Version: 0.3.0-4
Severity: important
Tags: patch


Hi,

consolekit is creating tagfiles in /var/run/console on login. This
tagfiles are used by dbus to check if a user is logged in locally and
should be able to send some messages (for example to mount a removable
device).

In Debian Edu we also use the at_console check to send messages about
new devices to locally logged in users only (to prevent LTSP users from
being notified about devices plugged into the terminal server).

In Etch we used libpam-foreground, but switched to consolekit for Lenny.

Back in the Etch times libpam-foreground did not differentiate between
local and remote users (see bug #431730) and consolekit does now the
same.

I would like to ask to extend pam-foreground-compat.ck for a check which
prevents tagfile creation for remote users. See attached patch for a
possible modification.

TIA and kind regards,

Daniel

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages consolekit depends on:
ii  dbus                   1.2.16-2          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libc6                  2.9-26            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libck-connector0       0.3.0-4           ConsoleKit libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.16-2          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.82-1            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.20.5-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libx11-6               2:1.2.2-1         X11 client-side library
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages consolekit recommends:
pn  libpam-ck-connector           <none>     (no description available)

consolekit suggests no packages.

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