Dbus and pam_group.so don't understand each other

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 10:05:55AM +0200, Kimmo Hämäläinen wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 06:40 -0500, ext Dariem Pérez Herrera wrote:
> > I don't know if this is a solved bug or there is still somebody working it
> > on, but there is no way for ldap or active direcory users assigned to group
> > plugdev through pam_group.so (session group?) to be recognized by dbus/hal,
> > so they can't mount pluggable devices, however other applications seems to
> > be perfectly aware of this groups, so the problem is not in glibc like some
> > people may think. Any known solution?
> 
> Does the attached patch help?

That won't help. The system bus obviously isn't in the user session, so it
won't get the session specific groups.

The long-term solution is to use PolicyKit and ConsoleKit for this kind of
functionality.

  Sjoerd
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