On Tuesday 05 November 2013 at 11:15:30, Lennart wrote: > On Tue, 05.11.13 12:37, Ivan Shapovalov (intelfx...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > > > So the question is: it is possible to mark a session as "always active" > > > > or something like that? > > > > > > Well, that should be the case implicitly if the session is properly > > > registered. What does "loginctl show-session" print for this session? > > > > > > Lennart > > > > > > > > > > Yes, I had the session bound to seat0. > > Configuring lightdm to use an empty seat made the session Active=yes. > > > > $ loginctl show-session c37 > > Id=c37 > > Timestamp=Вт 2013-11-05 12:22:13 MSK > > TimestampMonotonic=59464298414 > > VTNr=0 > > Display=localhost:10 > > Remote=no > > Service=lightdm > > Scope=session-c37.scope > > Leader=25926 > > Audit=0 > > Type=x11 > > Class=user > > Active=yes > > State=active > > IdleHint=no > > IdleSinceHint=0 > > IdleSinceHintMonotonic=0 > > Name=intelfx > > > > However, this still isn't exactly what I want. Now the session has no seat, so > > 1. udisks does not allow me to mount removables without authentication; > > 2. I suppose the dynamic device node permission stuff won't work for me either. > > > > So I want that session to be equivalent to a local one in terms of permissions etc... > > Is it somehow possible? > > So you want something like a "hybrid" session, i.e. one that is virtual > but has access to local devices? That's a special setup that is not > supported by logind itself. However note that you can express any > policies you like with polkit, hence you can configure it to grant > access to the devices to your user even if he is not logged into a > physical session. But that's something you have to do unrelated to > logind. > > Lennart >
Yes, I want something like that... Is it not supported _yet_ or _by design_? I suspect it is a valuable thing to have. Sure, I can try to configure polkit, but will that grant me permissions on device nodes (e. g. printers)? -- Ivan Shapovalov / intelfx / _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
