[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#658284: Bug#658284: xfce4-session: Please review README.Debian

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at debian.org
Thu Feb 2 19:25:15 UTC 2012


On jeu., 2012-02-02 at 18:28 +0000, Brian Potkin wrote:
> > The problem with startx resp. the 90consolekit script is, that it is
> run
> > as unprivileged user and CK no longer trusts this context.
> > That said, I don't think this problem is unfixable. I guess what it
> > requires is that the PAM stack is setting up the right context so CK
> can
> > trust it.
> 
> Is that a reference to using
> 
>    session optional     pam_loginuid.so
> 
> in /etc/pam.d/common-session? That also works me and has the
> advantages
> of being a single configuration change and having a Consolekit session
> marked as 'active = TRUE' and 'is-local = TRUE'. I'd be supportive of
> including a description of this method in README.Debian if it were to
> help a significant number of startx users.
> 
> 
I don't know what you did different, but just adding the snippet at the
end of /etc/pam.d/common-session doesn't give me active=TRUE and
is-local=TRUE here.

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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