Re: consolekit leaking session resources?

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Michael Biebl]
>> Any hope of having it added to release 5.0.1 (aka the next Lenny
>> update)?
> 
> Probably too late :-/
> 
> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases/PointReleases/5.0.1

Yeah, definitely running late. :(

> Good news is, that the Debian libpam-ck-connector package in Lenny
> is *not* automatically enabled (contrary to ubuntu), so stuff like
> cron jnobs won't allocate sessions.

We will have it enabled out of the box in Debian Edu, as we move from
pam-foreground to consolekit.

> Only logins via gdm or startx will trigger a allocated session. I
> thus consider this bug not that serious.
> It will be hard to DOS the system with gdm logins ;-)

I suspect it will be seriuos for Debian Edu, and we thus need a
backport or an updated package in the official Lenny archive. :(

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen