[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#422349: Bug#422349: dbus: Please add support for integrating with libpam-foreground

[Michael Biebl]

reassign 422349 consolekit
thanks

Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Package: dbus
> Version: 1.0.2-1
> Tags: patch
> 
> For local hotplug devices to work in a large installation, with
> thousand of machines and tens of thousand of users, like here at the
> University of Oslo where I work, it is not possible to add users
> globally to the plugdev group.
> 
> The supported solution from dbus and hal seem to be to use the
> pam_console module available from the pam-redhat package, and let it
> create /var/run/console/<username> when the user log in, and remove it
> when it logs out again.  The pam-redhat package is not in Debian.
> 
> An alternative solution is to use the libpam-foreground PAM module to
> pass information about locally logged in users as
> /var/run/console/<username>:<console#>, and patch dbus to recognize
> these files as well.  This is the approach used by Debian at the
> moment, and they use this patch.  Please apply it to the Debian
> version of dbus, to make it possible to enable hotplug devices in a
> large scale installation.
> 

Hi,

I'm going to reassign this bug to consolekit.
The next version of consolekit I'm going to upload (0.2.10-1) will 
contain a facility to write libpam-console compatible tags, which dbus 
can directly utilize with at_console.
This means, dbus doesn't have to be patched and there is no need for 
libpam-foreground.

Almost all dbus services already have a group based policy (mostly using 
netdev/powerdev/plugdev) *and* a at_console policy (currently missing is 
hal, where I'm going to upload a updated version soonish).

That means, when you install consolekit, at_console will be used and 
users no longer have to be added to the various groups.

Groups based policies will still work, and if you prefer that approach, 
simply don't install consolekit.

To provide a best out-of-the-box experience for lenny, I'll request that 
consolekit will be added to the various desktop tasks in tasksel.


Hope that addresses all issues.


Cheers,
Michael


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