consistent-login-screen aka UnifiedLoginUnlock

[Michael Biebl]

Ian Jackson schrieb:

> There is a package `consolekit' which attempts to solve this problem
> and a couple of related ones (eg, control over networking policy and
> media mounting); it's dbus based.  Changes have already been made
> upstream in gdm2 to support this.
> 
> Additionally, gdm upstream are working on a substantial overhaul of
> gdm which will be called gdm3 and which we expect to have in Ubuntu in
> gutsy+1.  (The current gdm2 code isn't very pretty so this may well be
> justified.)  Therefore any changes we make to gdm now will be thrown
> away afterwards.
> 
> We have consolekit in Ubuntu universe, synced from Debian.  We also
> have in our version of gdm2 the changes which are supposed to support
> consolekit, although the latter are compiled out by default.  I have
> tested this new functionality as it is current present in gutsy and it
> doesn't work properly, but I haven't spent any significant effort
> debugging it yet.
> 

What problems do you specificially have with respect to consolekit/gdm?

I've been testing consolekit and gdm (which has consolekit support
enabled in Debian by default) under Debian Sid, and it correctly
registers/unregisters sessions when logging in/out or switching a session
I also already tested a CK enabled hal, which should deal with
problems like automounting or power management, when multiple users are
logged in, and it seemed to work fine afair.

Cheers,
Michael
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