Re: Xorg replaces TTY1
On 2015-11-25 12:58:15 +0000, Brian wrote:
> This is where I think the confusion lies. Quoting
>
> https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/23004/
>
> again.
>
> There are 2 reasons for this change:
>
> 1) It is needed to make Xorg run without root rights
> 2) The old behavior creates a new session-id (as returned by getsid()),
> without registering it with PAM, this breaks session managers such
> as systemd-logind.
>
> Reason 2) is the one relevant to the first post in the thread.
Both are relevant. But if xserver-xorg-legacy is used as you suggested,
then I suppose that reason 2 is the one that is still relevant.
But then, if the user does "startx -- vt7", he would still be affected
by the session manager issue, possibly except with some PAM
reconfiguration.
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