[PATCH] remove use of at_console in the D-Bus configuration file

Danny Kukawka danny.kukawka at web.de
Wed Mar 26 06:46:03 PDT 2008


On Mittwoch, 26. März 2008, David Zeuthen wrote:
> Hey Danny,
>
> We should probably get this simple patch in. Am checking with you since
> you're driving the release train for .11. The main reason for this patch
> is that PolicyKit is used _anyway_ to control access to methods. And
> using pam_console to do this breaks when you try to e.g. run a power
> manager on the login screen as we're doing in Fedora 9 with g-p-m and
> the new gdm.
>
> (and this is something I expect a lot of other distros will do for at
> least GNOME 2.24 which is less than six months out.)
>
> OK to commit?

Isn't there a way to change the .in file to get it also work if there is no 
PolicyKit? I have atm no idea if someone really do this or not, but would be 
IMO nice to get a different hal.conf if you compiled hal to use PolicyKit 
than in the case you compiled it without PolicyKot/ConsoleKit.

Danny 



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