Bug#892302: libpam-systemd: Does not recgonize serial consoles as part of a seat

[Matthew Gabeler-Lee]

Thanks for the very fast reply :)

On Thu, 8 Mar 2018, Michael Biebl wrote:

> Are you logging in via serial console as unprivileged user?

Yes.  If I'm root, that grants all access and the session/tty/etc. 
become irrelevant.  But I want to run something as not-root under 
systemd-inhibit.  Yes, I could sudo systemd-inhibit sudo -u ... but 
blech :)

> /etc/securetty (pam_securetty) is not really a good idea.

Any thoughts why, other than that the default version of that file seems 
to have everything under the sun listed in it?

> That all said, you should really take this up with upstream at
> https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues

ACK, though systemd's official policy is basically "go away if you 
aren't running the bleeding edge".  I can verify the problem code is in 
the git master of systemd, but their policy is to not accept bug reports 
from such "old" versions as Debian runs, and explicitly to redirect back 
to the linux distro for support.

Nevertheless, filed https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/8582

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