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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Some news about status of ConsoleKit and Display Managers in Portage
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 08:32:20
Message-Id: 4F23B1B7.2090306@gentoo.org
1 pambase-20101024-r2 will restore the same behavior as pambase-20101024
2 had; it will restore the 'nox11' argument to the pam_ck_connector.so
3 line in /etc/pam.d/system-login.
4
5 this pam_ck_connector.so module is now used only for console logins
6 because all of the display managers we ship, have native ConsoleKit
7 support now:
8
9 xdm since 1.1.11-r1
10 slim since 1.3.2-r7
11 lxdm, all versions
12 gdm, all versions
13 kdm, all versions
14 lightdm, all versions
15 enter, lastrited now
16
17 in practise this means you don't need the CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL in kernel
18 for any of these display managers, or worry about pam_ck_connector.so at
19 all.
20
21 it also means you don't need to manually put 'ck-launch-session'
22 anywhere in your configs, except when using startx with custom .xinitrc.
23 and even startx works if you have XSESSION exported and no .xinitrc
24 without adding ck-launch-session anywhere yourself.
25
26 in otherwords, everything will just work(tm).
27 long as people now remember to punt any custom trickery they might have
28 added before we reached this point.