Re: systemd-fsck?
On Sun, 11 May 2014 22:34:47 -0700, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
wrote:
>On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 09:10:21AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
>> >> The plain fact:
>
>> >> Using systemd breaks something that worked for probably a decade or longer
>> >> before however long that su is in that init script. So on what account do
>> >> you call calling "su" in an init script a bug? It may not be the most
>> >> elegant solution to do things, granted, but a bug? Come on. Calling it a
>> >> bug just cause systemd / policykit treat calling su in an initscript as
>> >> they do is quite arrogant in my eyes.
>
>> >As the maintainer of the pam package in Debian, I assure you: this is a bug
>> >in dirmngr. System services should not (must not) call interfaces that
>> >launch pam sessions as part of their init scripts. su is one of those
>> >interfaces.
>
>> Is this documented anywhere, or is this only clear with detailed PAM
>> knowledge, which I have tried to build numerous times in the last ten
>> years and was never able due to (in my opinion) inadequate
>> documentation on the beginner level.
>
>It's not documented anywhere; it's an emergent property which is obvious if
>you understand the underlying design, but not something that was ever
>designed per se. It might not be a bad idea to document it, though I'm not
>sure where the best place to do this would be.
Where is the underlying design explained?
Greetings
Marc
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