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title="NEW --- - console login no longer possible when PAM_SESSION_ERR condition is triggered"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67288#c5">Comment # 5</a>
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title="NEW --- - console login no longer possible when PAM_SESSION_ERR condition is triggered"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67288">bug 67288</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:michael+freedesktop@stapelberg.de" title="Michael Stapelberg <michael+freedesktop@stapelberg.de>"> <span class="fn">Michael Stapelberg</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=67288#c4">comment #4</a>)
<span class="quote">> (In reply to <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=67288#c3">comment #3</a>)
> > I propose changing the code so that it won’t close the file descriptor at
> > all. Even though sessions will pile up and not work as expected, you will
> > still be able to log in, which is important. What do you think?
>
> Does logind provide an API which allows one to tear down a session without
> killing all its processes?</span >
>From looking at <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/logind/">http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/logind/</a> I
would say no, it does not.
Also note that the code path we are talking about is entered (amongst other
conditions) when the code cannot talk to logind, so depending on logind for the
error handling seems wrong :).
Lennart, Kay, what do you think with regards to <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=67288#c3">comment #3</a>?</pre>
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