[systemd-devel] XDG_SEAT for kmscon

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 01.10.12 15:08, David Herrmann (dh.herrmann at googlemail.com) wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I am currently working on making kmscon a drop-in replacement for
> agetty and was wondering how XDG_SEAT has to be set to correctly mark
> the seat-name for new logins? I currently simply spawn /bin/login from
> kmscon, but it doesn't set up the seat-name correctly (it simply
> passes "").
> 
> Setting XDG_SEAT=seat0 for /bin/login doesn't work. Is there any
> documentation on this variable?

Just for completeness of the mailing list archives' sake: systemd in git
will now check XDG_SEAT both via pam_getenv() and via getenv() (only as
fallback), so that this should work correctly.

Lennart

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