[systemd-devel] Make X11 logind session unconditionally active

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 05.11.13 15:03, Ivan Shapovalov (intelfx100 at gmail.com) wrote:

> > By design I guess. The automatic stuff is for the common case. I doubt
> > that such a "hybrid" session is really such a common case, especially
> > since it creates a ton of problems when you mix it with normal physical
> > sessions on seat0.
> > 
> > > Sure, I can try to configure polkit, but will that grant me permissions on 
> > > device nodes (e. g. printers)?
> > 
> > Printers are a system resource, they are not reassigned to user
> > sessions, they are expected to be written to only by system services
> > like CUPS.
> 
> ...or sound devices. After all, I'm asking about the generic case :)

Well, those are not handled via polkit. However there's an "audio" group
for them by default which is the alternative way to handle these things
if you don't want "uaccess" style ACL management.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat