Your message dated Sun, 04 Nov 2018 17:15:24 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Bug#911416: Removed package(s) from unstable has caused the Debian Bug report #653760, regarding consolekit conflicts with device user groups (introduces regression, fails to deliver functionality) to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: consolekit Version: 0.4.1-4 On the general level: Consolekit seems to switches permissions on devices, but it does not support, actually conflicts, with the unix/debian way of limiting the access to devices with user groups. On the specific level: Consolekit fails to switch permissions for sound devices, if a member of the audio group is logged in and the console user changes ("fast user switching"). A more specific bug description is "Only one user gets sound with privilege "Use audio devices" [the audio group]" Details at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/consolekit/+bug/433654 For a brief explanation see: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/TheAudioGroup Debian will have to come to a general decision on how to solve the issue. The consolekit docs seem to suggest to drop the hardware groups altogether, and thus stop admins from being able to grant permissions to just some users (privileged users allowed to make announcements for example) simply by managing group memberships. Yet, this does not seem to integrate well for a universal OS used for systems of a broad range of sizes and complexities. Another solution that avoids this conflict and regression may be to let consolekit respect the audio group (and other hardware groups) and only give a console user access if found in the appropriate group. As well as find a way to switch permissions between users that are in the group. Some specific ideas at gentoo: http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_c5ea1c211d36bf8823ea5cb8ab40ca07.xml
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 0.4.6-6.1+rm Dear submitter, as the package consolekit has just been removed from the Debian archive unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry that we couldn't deal with your issue properly. For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/911416 The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/. This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [email protected]. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Scott Kitterman (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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