[systemd-devel] [PATCH] cgroups: chown user slices

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 11.07.13 23:20, Oleksii Shevchuk (alxchk at gmail.com) wrote:

> 
> > Yeah, you need to set some env vars currently. The idea however is that
> > the X/dbus libraries learn to look into XDG_RUNTIME_DIR on their own.
> 
> I tried to make it work without success -- result is unusable. So, one
> of the issues - pam_systemd doesn't forward environment to child
> process. Without that things like pam_gnome_keyring (probably) can work
> only with awfull workarounds.

pam_gnome_keyring needs to be in the pam stack for "systemd-shared" of
course.

(BTW, I figure we should rename the PAM service before this gets widely
adopted. "systemd-shared" is not helpful...)

> > Nobody needs to wait for systemd --user exits. It will just exist in the
> > background as long as the user is logged in and will go away as soon as
> > he logs out entirely. It is refernce counted by the login sessions. 
> 
> Second one is absence of "following" mode or so. So here is the problem:
> login manager forks Xsession initialization and terminates the greeter
> (and session) when it exits. If daemon running in background, some
> waiting mechainsm should be invented. And again, new environment should
> be propagated to shared instance (and if session stops, should be
> deinitialized). So, to migrate, either some new daemon should be written
> to do all that stuff, or dm managers should be reworked.

Which environment would that be? 

For sockets and suchlike relying on $XDG_RUNTIME_PATH should be sufficient.

> Do we really need such complexity?
> 
> Maybe old behavior can be offered as the option for those of us, who
> really uses user session, at least till the moment, when mainstream will
> be ready for migration? 

Well, you can still run systemd --user from inside the session if you
chown the cgroupfs subtree first.
 
> // Btw, there are some minor issues with proper
> deinitialization|stopping -- PID 1 rests in timeouts while shutdown..

Can you elaborate? Where exactly does it hang?

Lennart

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