On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 06:56:20 +0200, Samuli Suominen wrote: > Right, only GDM (the display manager for GNOME) has dropped ConsoleKit > support so far, that I know, in versions 3.8 and later > So other than GNOME, ConsoleKit is still a go -- thus, compatible with > OpenRC based system
I tried USE="-consolekit" but it does not help. > For KDE it might be something else than dbus-glib that needs a > recompile, I'd imagine something like kdelibs or polkit-kde-agent, or > both It could be something else too, This problem has been there for a couple of years, it's reasonable to assume that all KDE components have been recompiled several times in that period. In fact, both of those were rebuilt by emerge -e dbus dbus-glib. > but setting the suid bit on > dbus-daemon-launch-helper is stupidest idea ever, that *really* allows > anyone to gain root Just to be clear, the SUID bit is set by default, I set the other execute bit (o+x). The file already has group execute permissions, but adding my user to the messagebus group makes no difference > However if you run a machine with single user and no open ports on the > machine whatsoever, the attack vector is propably very small, but I > still wouldn't do it The alternative is to stop using KDE, since none of the proposed solutions, nor anything else I've tried, make any difference. Edit: Dropping KDE may not make much difference, I still get these messages when booting without X. -- Neil Bothwick Why is there an expiration date on sour cream?
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