Bug#484248: kpowersave suspend/standby features need users to belong to powerdev

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

Actually, I believe adding users to system groups is the wrong
approach to solve this issue.  A more scalable approach is to use
libpam-foreground or the more recent consolekit packages to allow dbus
and hal to track where users are connected, and grant access based on
that.

See URL: http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2007/05/msg00107.html 
for my comments on pam-foreground, and note that consolekit was
written as a improved replacement for pam-foreground.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen



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Bug#484248: kpowersave suspend/standby features need users to belong to powerdev

[Vincent Ramos]

Package: kpowersave
Version: 0.7.3-2
Severity: important

kpowersave suspend and standby features require users to belong to powerdev
group but the program, neither during install nor launch, never warns them
about that. When a user (other than root) not belonging to this group
tryies to use one of these features, nothing happens, without any relevant
error message.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages kpowersave depends on:
ii  hal  0.5.11~rc2-1Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  kdelibs4c2a  4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-4core libraries and binaries
for al
ii  libc62.7-10  GNU C Library: Shared
libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3  1.2.1-2 simple interprocess messaging
syst
ii  libdbus-qt-1-1c2 0.62.git.20060814-2 simple interprocess messaging
syst
ii  libgcc1  1:4.3.0-5   GCC support library
ii  libhal1  0.5.11~rc2-1Hardware Abstraction Layer -
share
ii  libstdc++6   4.3.0-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library
v3
ii  libxext6 2:1.0.4-1   X11 miscellaneous extension
librar
ii  libxss1  1:1.1.3-1   X11 Screen Saver extension
library
ii  libxtst6 2:1.0.3-1   X11 Testing -- Resource
extension 

kpowersave recommends no packages.

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