Comment 125 for bug 1197395
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(In reply to Martin Pitt from comment #57)
> Taking Lennart's concerns into account, I think an acceptable compromise
> would be for pam_systemd to unset $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR if it already exists but
> isn't owned by geteuid(). Then the program you run under su won't use a
> wrong runtime dir any more, but also doesn't pretend to be a full session.
I still hope that we'll eventually see something like XDG_RUNTIME_DIR that is universally available, so that we can avoid sprinkling fallback code across tons of programs (and that fallback code tends to be buggy).