[pkg-fso-commits] [SCM] Automatic Display Manager branch, pamhelper, updated. debian/0.1-50-g3795be1

Enrico Zini enrico at enricozini.org
Mon Feb 23 16:44:27 UTC 2009


The following commit has been merged in the pamhelper branch:
commit 3795be1d7528a8f97386ba090bc7ee14a9e060bc
Author: Enrico Zini <enrico at enricozini.org>
Date:   Mon Feb 23 16:45:34 2009 +0000

    Updated TODO

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 0ad8bb4..dea0e24 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -8,10 +8,11 @@
  + split X options before passing them to xinit?  Is it needed or xinit does it?
  + signals are blocked while waiting between retries
  + set up the right environment, and cd to the right place
- - does not start X session if it is run as a user
+ + does not start X session if it is run as a user
    X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting.
    (allowed_users=console in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config)
- - we currently do not honour login.defs.  Do we need it?
+
+Notes on another way to implement display managers:
 
 #debian-devel < enrico> so, /etc/X11/Xwrapper.conf disallows a user to run X unless they're on console.  How do display 
                         managers work around it?
@@ -43,5 +44,6 @@
 #debian-devel < enrico> jcristau: then it has to juggle two processes.  In the end, if I reimplement that I risk 
                         introducing more bugs than it's worth, and I can just reuse xinit and give it a session that does 
                         the setuid
-#debian-devel < jcristau> enrico: ok :)
+
+ - we currently do not honour login.defs.  Do we need it?  no
 

-- 
Automatic Display Manager



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