[Mageia-dev] autologin + consolekit

Colin Guthrie mageia at colin.guthr.ie
Tue Jun 14 10:07:00 CEST 2011


'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 12/06/11 23:45 did gyre and gimble:
> Hi,
> 
> The autologin package is broken due to the fact that it doesn't connect
> to consolekit and thus the user who is automatically logged in doesn't
> get any permissions etc.
> 
> I've fixed this by changing the autologin pam.d definition to include
> "login" rather than "system-auth".
> 
> login adds the optional session module for pam_ck_connector.
> 
> But I'm not sure whether this makes sense, or whether we should just add
> the ck_connector to the autologin pam.d definition itself.
> 
> There may be other login systems that have similar problems (e.g. the
> autologin features of gdm or slim etc) but I've not tested.
> 
> Any thoughts.

Does anyone know what the right way to fix the above is?

I'd like to issue an update when appropriate to take care of this.

Col

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