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(In reply to comment #38)
> I am sorry, but I am firmly of the opinion that we should bind the
> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR stuff, the bus, the user session and the audit session
> together, and that "su" should only do the minimal work beyond that.
You are absolutely right about "su". However I disagree with "su -". "su -" should bring you brand new session. Please note that in this usecase auditing point of view and user point of view are different.
From auditing point of view you want to track which physical person does something and it's clear that if someone calls "su -", it's still physical person (i.e. same user who logged through ssh/gdm/kdm etc). I.e. you need auditing for tracking which physical person is logged in.
However from user point of view, I expect that computer thinks that I'm brand new user when I call "su -", even when I'm same physical person. So "su -" (however not "su") should create brand new session, with new bus, new XDG_ dirs etc.
Don't you think that goals of auditing and goals of user sessions are pretty different? Reopening for further consideration.