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Re: DE features dependent on Systemd



On Fri, 2014-12-05 at 15:22 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Svante Signell <svante.signell@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Wed, 2014-12-03 at 16:55 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> >> On 03/12/14 14:46, Svante Signell wrote:
> 
> >>> If more granularity is needed, what's hindering introduction of even
> >>> more groups: like an image group and splitting the fb0 to more devices?
> >>> Or even subdirectories like /dev/snd/* for audio etc.
> 
> >> This does not actually solve the same problem as logind's "uaccess", or
> >> ConsoleKit's "udev ACL" (which was an older version of the same general
> >> idea): it just splits it up into a larger number of orthogonal instances
> >> of the same problem, which is that group membership makes a poor
> >> encoding for temporary permissions.
> 
> > Have you ever heard about openafs?

> When NFSv4 development
> sparked the modern Linux keyring data model, we were delighted to switch
> (and then got very frustrated by the GPL-only tags on various keyring
> features, but that's another argument).

So I wish you a happy life with current (Debian chosen) technology, it
is perfect! No more problems with bugs popping up or people being unable
to boot their desktop computers/servers. Merry Christmas :) 


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