On 2020-07-22, Ashley Dixon <a...@suugaku.co.uk> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 02:29:48AM -0000, Grant Edwards wrote: >> Yes, that's what I did months ago, and everything worked fine with >> Xorg using the "suid" flag and without consolekit or elogind -- until >> this morning, when pam refused to upgrade unless I set the elogind USE >> flag. > > Look at REQUIRED_USE in sys-auth/pambase ebuild [1]: > REQUIRED_USE="?? ( consolekit elogind systemd )" > > I.e., "zero or one of `consolekit`, `elogind`, or `systemd` must be set, but > not > several". [2]
Right. Contrary to what the news article says, you can not just enable 'suid' on xorg-server and run without consolekit/elogind/systemd. -- Grant
