[Christian Perrier] > However, the mention you make about pam_foreground is new to me. Where > does this module come from? > > It seems that it could be the one module that is OK to give access to > local devices to "the person who's sitting in front of the machine". > > Which package does it belong to?
The package is libpam-foreground, and it come from Ubuntu, which was implementing an idea from RedHat. And yes, it provides a back-channel to let hal/dbus know which users are in front of the machine. I spoke about this during debconf, and there seem to be work going on in the hal/dbus community to provide a daemon to track this information instead of relying on pam. I am not sure how far they got, and believe it is best to use the pam_foreground system until a useful replacement show up. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
