pam_console

[Patrice Dumas]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 03:31:29PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 
> The second part of pam_console is that it provides the gating information
> for userhelper. There are many more apps that use this, and it's a more
> involved port to get them to use PolicyKit, or a similar framework. However,
> I don't see why we couldn't just port pam_ck_connector.so to drop the
> lock file in /var/run/console, and then usermode/userhelper can just
> work the same, without having to have a second extraneous pam module. We
> can then work on porting the other apps at our leisure.
> 
> Opinions?

I don't have much opinion on that, but I don't really get how 
pam_ck_connector goes in the picture. Currently it is not used by 
anything but login, since the ConsoleKit session opening is done
either directly by the dm (kdm and gdm), or at the X session start,
using ck-xinit-session (at least xinit does so, and xdm/slim/vnc/nx
would do so once 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452156
is resolved).

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Pat