[systemd-devel] Creating a fake logind seat with no devices [Experiment]

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mi, 29.07.20 00:11, nerdopolis (bluescreen_avenger at verizon.net) wrote:

> Hi
>
> Sorry about the length.
>
> I have a unique thing I am trying to solve, is that if I have a service that calls /sbin/logind under
> something like tmux, and I set `Environment=XDG_SEAT=seat0` in the service file, upon logging in,
> pam_systemd fails to create a session, as it's seat0 and it's expecting a valid TTY number, as it's
> seat0. One of the side effects is that you lose the credential prompt that you usually get if you
> run a command like `systemctl restart foo.service`, and there could be other things too?

Seats are a concept of grouping hardware. A seat without hardware
is pointless. If you have no hardware associated with a session then
the session is seat-less, which is totally fine.

I don't get what you are trying to do?

Lennart

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