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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