consolekit and user groups

[William Jon McCann]

Hi,

[resending - stuck in moderation]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:
> I've been looking at consolekit but I'm having a hard time getting
> traction.  The docs assume you already have a pretty deep knowledge of
> hal and dbus, and there are no examples I've found for newbies.
>
> Im working on a multi-seat setup and I'm trying to figure out how to
> assign hardware resources to a user.  Here's what I am trying to do:
>
> I have a group of hardware resources that are assigned to a seat.
> Currently I am working on the premise that all of the resources are
> attached to a USB hub.  Anything plugged in to the hub gets assigned to
> the seat - cameras, dvd players, etc.  That hardware is then made
> available to the user logged in on that seat.
>
> My concept has been to assign all those resources to a group: seatX.
> When user userX logs in, he is made a member of group seatX, and has
> access to those resources.
>
>  From reading the docs, this is what consoleKit is all about.  But as I
> said, I can't get traction at all.  Is there a consolekit for idiots
> guide? Some simple examples showing how users/ groups, and hardware is
> handled?  Or even where in the chain of login events/hotplug
> events/whatever events these things are done?
>

Yeah, ConsoleKit was designed with all this in mind.  There are only a
few bits left to do.  Some of these are described here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Desktop/Whiteboards/Multiseat

David and Kay were looking into this a bit recently so maybe they can
give an update.

Jon