[PATCH v2][xdm] Implement ConsoleKit support.

[Takashi Iwai]

At Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:49:53 +0200,
Julien Cristau wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 09:31:41 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> > At Fri, 22 Jul 2011 21:49:08 +0200,
> > Julien Cristau wrote:
> > > 
> > > Is "ck-daemon isn't running" a good reason to prevent the user from
> > > logging in?  (Why?)
> > 
> > It's reached only when you set use_consolekit is set.  You say you
> > are using CK but it's not detected, thus it's an error.
> > 
> use_consolekit defaults to yes, so that's not really true.

Feel free to set it off as default.

But note that this is set true only when the consolekit support is
found and enabled via configure script, and most modern distros will
make it enabled as default anyway.

>  It doesn't
> seem to be flagged as an error by pam-ck-connector, in any case (it
> returns PAM_IGNORE), I'm not sure why it's fatal for xdm.

It could be handled as non-fatal when no error code is set, too.

But usually you'll face problems sooner or later in such a situation
because it means that you logged in without proper device
permissions.


Takashi