Heads up for login managers

[David Zeuthen]

On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 10:39 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 08:32:50PM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > 
> > Hey,
> > 
> > The major chunk of fast-user-switching has landed in Rawhide and as such
> > if a desktop session requires non-trival services from HAL the login
> > manager launching the session needs to be patched to poke ConsoleKit.
> > I've filed a tracking bug for this
> 
> As I said in the bugzilla, the dm is not the right place for ConsoleKit
> handling. This definitely belongs to pam. At least for the following
> reasons:
> * avoid code duplication, especially important becaus security is at 
>   stake here
> * can be extended to other login services than dm
> * can be removed for dm
> * configurable

Probably better to discuss in Bugzilla; I'll add Jon (ConsoleKit
author); he had some smashing arguments IIRC for not to do this and I
wouldn't be able to do a good job just repeating those.

> * avoid adding dependencies to dm. dbus and glib are bug deps for small
>  dm.

No, there's only a dbus dependency. D-Bus does not require glib.

      David