Bug#798473: Please let non-root users ask for passwords

[Michael Biebl]

Am 09.09.2015 um 20:49 schrieb martin f krafft:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 225-1
> Severity: wishlist
> File: /bin/systemd-ask-password
> 
> The file being in /bin suggests that users can use it. However,
> writing a service unit just now using User= to start a process as
> non-root exposed that /run/systemd/ask-password is not writeable by
> non-root.
> 
> Is there any technical reason why not anyone can register
> password-ask requests with the system? Ideally, the requests would
> get a target user such that e.g. systemd-tty-ask-password-agent can
> be fired off by the target users to respond to queries.

Can you post a minimal test case?


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