[23231] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.2.13: machtype -d
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Jul 25 14:20:20 2003
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@mit.edu>
Cc: bugs@mit.edu
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Date: 25 Jul 2003 14:20:16 -0400
On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 07:09, Garry Zacheiss wrote:
> which is trying to restrict access to the X server to people logged in
> on the console, except pam_console.so will fail in our environment
> because it seems to just look for the presence of /var/run/console/$USER
> to decide if the user is logged in on the console, which of course isn't
> created by xlogin/dm.
I vote for changing xlogin/dm to create that file on Linux; it seems
like the cleanest fix.
