dbus: Removing pam_console, pam_foreground, /var/run/console support?

Simon McVittie smcv at collabora.com
Thu Jun 29 21:33:18 UTC 2017


On Thu, 29 Jun 2017 at 12:32:01 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> That seems fine to me; I doubt there's a big set of systems
> relying on this that aren't using systemd.  For those that aren't, I think
> the sanest thing is to pick up the work done elsewhere to implement
> the logind1 DBus API.

It would have to be the logind subset of the libsystemd C API (the
real implementation of which reads files in /run). dbus-daemon can't
sensibly contact logind via async D-Bus calls :-)

    S


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