ConsoleKit and xinit

William Jon McCann mccann at jhu.edu
Wed Sep 5 08:49:15 PDT 2007


Hi,

On 9/5/07, Mark Rosenstand <mark at borkware.net> wrote:
> I'm playing with ConsoleKit and it seems to work nicely when I log in
> through GDM, but if I login through a tty (with "session optional
> pam_ck_connector.so" in /etc/pam.d/login) and use xinit, I'm not allowed
> to mount removable media etc.
>
> Is there a way to make this work?

You need to patch xinit to add ConsoleKit support.  Here is how it was
done in Fedora:
http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/devel/xorg-x11-xinit/xinit-1.0.2-2-poke-ck.patch?view=markup

Does it work once you do that?

Jon


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