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authorSimon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>2017-09-25 14:09:35 +0100
committerSimon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>2017-09-25 20:28:02 +0100
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Deprecate the pam_console/pam_foreground flag-file directory
This feature is now compile-time conditional, and off by default. pam_console appears to have been in Fedora and Gentoo until 2007. pam_foreground seems to be specific to Debian and Ubuntu, where it was unmaintained since 2008 and removed in 2010. The replacement for both was ConsoleKit, which has itself been superseded by systemd-logind and ConsoleKit2. Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com> Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/101629 Reviewed-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
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D-Bus 1.11.18 (UNRELEASED)
==
+Build-time configuration changes:
+
+• By default, dbus-daemon on Unix no longer checks for flag files
+ /var/run/console/${username} created by the obsolete pam_console and
+ pam_foreground PAM modules when deciding whether ${username} is
+ currently at the console. The old default behaviour can be restored
+ by specifying --with-console-auth-dir=/var/run/console in the
+ recommended Autotools build system, or
+ -DDBUS_CONSOLE_AUTH_DIR=/var/run/console in CMake. This feature is
+ now deprecated, and will be removed in dbus 1.13 unless feedback via
+ fd.o #101629 indicates that this would be problematic.
+ (fd.o #101629, Simon McVittie)
+
Enhancements:
• <allow> and <deny> rules in dbus-daemon configuration can now