[systemd-devel] Restoring systemd-ui?

[Ben Boeckel]

Hi,

At $DAYJOB, we started migrating to 2FA for VPN which has caused me to
look at how I can get the system service to provoke my user session to
ask me a prompt for the password. Of course, systemd has a solution for
it that:

    https://systemd.io/PASSWORD_AGENTS/

which I *can* use, but I need to do plumbing on my side because I use a
desktop environment cobbled together from pieces :) . I found
`systemd-ui` which provides a useful tool for those with "minimal"
desktop setups:

    https://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd-ui

which is…dormant to say the least. Is there any appetite to resurrecting
this on Github? I have patches to make it work with modern Vala/GTK3
here:

    https://github.com/mathstuf/systemd-ui/tree/modernize

and metadata needed for actual deployment here (polkit rules and user
units though install rules are lacking; the agent is also missing a
manpage):

    https://github.com/mathstuf/systemd-ui/tree/modernize-metadata-wip

FWIW, I think renaming the agent to `systemd-gtk-ask-password-agent`
might be useful as there's nothing actually GNOME-specific about it.

Thanks,

--Ben