Dbus atconsole policy

Matthew Paul Thomas mpt at canonical.com
Fri Jan 6 00:05:27 GMT 2006


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On 2 Jan, 2006, at 4:35 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> ...
> In order for this to work, lockfiles must be generated for every user
> that logs in at the console. I've written a small PAM module
> (libpam-foreground) that will do this. On login, it will create
> /var/run/console/username:vtnumber. On logout, this will automatically
> be removed.
> ...

Possibly a silly question, but: What happens if someone shuts down 
(e.g. the power goes out and they have no UPS) without logging out? How 
does the file ever get removed in that case?

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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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