Re: Bug#426452: user-setup: Should allow preseeding to avoid adding initial user into local device groups
Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> writes:
> [Christian Perrier]
>> However, the mention you make about pam_foreground is new to me. Where
>> does this module come from?
>>
>> It seems that it could be the one module that is OK to give access to
>> local devices to "the person who's sitting in front of the machine".
>>
>> Which package does it belong to?
>
> The package is libpam-foreground, and it come from Ubuntu, which was
> implementing an idea from RedHat.
>
> And yes, it provides a back-channel to let hal/dbus know which users
> are in front of the machine.
>
> I spoke about this during debconf, and there seem to be work going on
> in the hal/dbus community to provide a daemon to track this
> information instead of relying on pam. I am not sure how far they
> got, and believe it is best to use the pam_foreground system until a
> useful replacement show up.
I'm using this pam module in a cuple of customizations here where I
work following the suggestions made by Debian-EDU people (specially
Petter) and it does work pretty well.
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