On 10/29/06, Simon Geard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Here's a tip for when you do look at it, which may save you some time
and frustration. The package includes a pam module which grants local
users a 'desktop-console' privilege - this module only considers X
sessions to be local, i.e TTY matches :0 or :0.0 formats. Without
patching it, running from the console (i.e tty1 and friends) will not
have any permissions as a local user.

Only for X, huh? That's unfortunate.

Note too that despite the overlap in functionality, this module
(pam_polkit_console) has nothing to do with pam_console, and doesn't
seem to require it to be present.

Right. I think the idea is to not use pam_console at all anymore. This
pam module is supposed to be generic enough that any of the distros
will use it. But I don't think anyone's really using PolicyKit yet.
You can still use HAL without it as I understand.

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Dan
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