On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 06:10:37PM +0000, DJ Lucas via blfs-dev wrote:
>
> >
> Yes, the input devices get associated with the seat. I'm in the same boat.
> It has and does work perfectly for a regular user with only primary group
> membership. I am unable to figure out why the polkit mechanism is not
> working for some. My point is that we've always had Xorg suid in the SysV
> book. While I am reluctant to do so, we haven't been successful in finding
> whatever it is that I've missed in elogind's introduction to the book, and I
> just don't think this issue should put any more strain on the release, as it
> is not a regression.
>
First, can I mention that I overthought my attitude to adding my
user to the wheel group ? This is a developer's workstation (for
some value of workstation) with a single human user. Being in the
wheel group doesn't of itself let me do things using my own password
in sudo, so objecting to that is excessive.
Therefore, I've added myself to the wheel group in the current
build.
And my "add myself to the input approach" is a workaround for
whatever is not working, it will no help my user to do anything else
that needs polkit to confirm the action.
> There is a less desirable method for handling suid bit for the Xorg bin. We
> could add a note with instructions for the suid bit in the event that there
> is a problem on your particular build. For the book, I lean towards just
> putting back the suid bit as it was, as I place a higher value on the
> consistency between different builds, but that is strictly my opinion. While
> I don't particularly like either suggestion, I suppose all are worth
> consideration.
>
I'm keen to see whatever works for you and Pierre working for me,
but at the moment I'm out of ideas. In the absence of a solution,
I'd prefer to add a note about adding the suid bit using chmod IFF it
is necessary, with a comment that the reasons for this sometimes
being needed are not yet understood.
> OTOH, dropping the elogind and mountcgroupfs bootscripts absolutely should
> happen before release. The PAM configuration works just fine in both user
> sessions and DM sessions (regardless of the seat association); the scripts
> just add needless complexity.
>
> --DJ
>
It's fun, isn't it ? Well, I'll keep telling myself that, maybe one
day I'll believe it ;-)
ĸen
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