On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 02:55:58PM +0100, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Claudio,
> 
> > I tested the latest bluez-utils CVS version with the recent D-Bus
> > changes and I have some comments:
> > 
> > * Policy
> > I'm not sure, but I think some linux distributions use pam_console
> > instead of at_console. We sould investigate more to avoid future
> > problems. Another thing are the rules. at_console aims provide a way
> > to refer to users that are not physically sitting in front of the
> > computer. I tested send D-Bus messages from the local host or
> > connected through ssh and I didn't noticed differences. I mean, the
> > behaviour is the same. Remote users still able to send D-Bus messages.
> 
> actually the at_console should be transparent between different Linux
> distributions. However we need to verify that it works on at least
> Fedora, SuSE, Debian and Ubuntu.

at_console currently doesn't work on Debian, but does on Ubuntu (using
pam-foreground not pam_console). However i intend to add pam-foreground support
to debian's dbus too, which would make at_console supported on debian too.  

  Sjoerd
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