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consolekit package

  1. Bug #287715
  2. Comment #12

Comment 12 for bug 287715

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James Westby (james-w) wrote : Re: Trying to shut down or restart falsely suggests others are logged in

> I haven't tested it, but it seems like a valid bandaid. Should be
> cleaned with upstream, of course. You should test against < 500,
> though. [1]

Ah, thanks for the pointer.

> Actually I rather thought about making cron sessions not start
> consolekit sessions in the first place, since otherwise you'd still
> have that problem with user cronjobs, wouldn't you?

That would certainly be better I think. I'm just not sure how to do it.

My understanding is that currently we have

  cron -> pam -> pam-ck-connector in common-session -> ck session

We can't have cron bypass pam, so we either need it to miss out pam-ck-connector,
or pam-ck-connector to ignore cron. My PAM knowledge is too weak to know
if either of these is possible or how we would go about it.

Thanks,

James