Re: Should libpam-elogind Provide libpam-systemd ?

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> writes:

> Conflicts would greatly simplify packaging, but I'm afraid we need
> coinstallability at least for upgrades.  With d-i installing systemd,
> the user needs to be able to switch to sysvinit -- and, horrors, some
> might want to go the other way.

> It'd be damage to allow two loginds running at the same time, thus what
> about:
> * the "systemd" package starts its logind only if systemd is pid 1
> * elogind starts its logind only if pid 1 is not systemd

I may be missing some complexity here, but it feels as if there should be
a PAM module that determines which logind is running and then dispatches
the PAM calls to the appropriate module for the running logind.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>