Heads up for login managers

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 02:42:46PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > 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.

The kernel's session-specific keyring is, though, right?

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