Heads up for login managers
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Mon Feb 12 19:42:46 UTC 2007
Steve Grubb (sgrubb at redhat.com) said:
> > Also why we need to track the sessions. Right now XDG_SESSION_COOKIE
> > provides that mechanism and I'm asking for a kernel extension so we
> > don't need to rely on an environment variable being set.
>
> So could UID. All you need is a unique identifier for each session. UID can do
> that. Whatever you use, it has to be auditable.
UID isn't unique among sessions.
Bill
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