Bug#824950: systemd: pam_systemd should not use loginuid (at least not when used by su)

[Michael Biebl]

Control: reassign -1 libpam-systemd
Control: forcemerge -1 732209

Am 21.05.2016 um 20:17 schrieb Alex:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 215-17+deb8u4
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Systemd is causing a full freeze DE MATE Debian (using 100% CPU and memory
> leak). This problem is very old and still not fixed. This also applies to
> Systemd versions stretch: 229-5 and unstable: 229-6
> 
> strace -f $(pidof mate-settings-daemon
> 6240 open("/run/user/1000/dconf/user", O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0600) = -1 EACCES
> (Permission denied)
> 
> Now even Linux Mint' maintainers tired of this problem and fix it themselves.
> They make a hotfix package systemd: https://github.com/linuxmint/systemd-
> rosa/commit/50d0f45f22494e004b927060bc0fc2d32136dee6
> 
> In Debian it looks like this problem will exist forever. Maybe you want that
> users switch to LinuxMint?

This has nothing to do with loginuid.
In any case this is just another duplicate so merging with existing one(s).
In the end, this should be fixed in su/sudo (which need to clear their
environment), not worked around in libpam-systemd. The patch you pointed
at is not a proper fix.

Regards,
Michael
-- 
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