Re: dbus: Removing pam_console, pam_foreground, /var/run/console support?

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017, at 12:28 PM, Simon McVittie wrote:
> 
> After the /var/run/console protocol is removed, the following protocols
> to get equivalent information for "at_console" policy rules will remain
> available in dbus:
> 
> * If enabled, ask systemd-logind via its C API in libsystemd; a user with
>   a session on any seat is considered to be at the console
> * If compiled for Solaris, probe the file owner of /dev/console;
>   its owner is considered to be at the console

That seems fine to me; I doubt there's a big set of systems
relying on this that aren't using systemd.  For those that aren't, I think
the sanest thing is to pick up the work done elsewhere to implement
the logind1 DBus API.
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