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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

Excerpts from Treeve Jelbert's message of Mon Oct 12 21:21:48 +0200 2009:
> On Monday 12 October 2009 21:11:12 Eric Sandall wrote:
> > Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > here's a question that needs a resolution before the next stable can be
> > > released: how do we want to handle the policykit dependency on 
> > > linux-pam?
> > > [0]
> > >
> > > Currently that dependency is missing from the spell. If we add it, we
> > > essentially force all gnome users to use linux-pam instead of shadow.
> > > So far we've always given users the choice not to use PAM, and I think
> > > we should continue to do so.
> > >
> > > I see two options right now, with one not tested yet:
> > > a) add hard dependency on linux-pam to policykit
> > > b) remove polkit-agent-helper from the policykit build if pam is not
> > >    available
> > >
> > > Upstream currently only supports linux-pam, although a shadow backend
> > > for the agent would be added by upstream if someone writes it[1].
> > > I will try option b), but I'm not sure how much I can test if it works
> > > while having the whole test system in a chroot.
> > >
> > > [0] http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15427
> > > [1]
> > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/polkit-devel/2009-October/000228.ht
> > >ml
> > 
> > I prefer b) as well. All my systems use PAM so I'd only be able to test
> > in a chroot as well. Anyone without PAM willing to help?
> > 
> 
> 
> I don't use PAM, and was looking at polkit recently.
> 
> I may be able todo some tests.

Hi,

workaround commited to test with change 
e1dc9355e4540c479272bc8f2d1aee19b1ef4fc2.
It casts fine in my chroot now, but so far I have not tested if anything
actually works ;)
Testing on a real system would be very welcome.
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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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