On 2020-07-22, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: >> >> Users who do not wish to use logind interface or have rare hardware >> >> that does not use KMS and because of that, require root privileges >> >> to operate, can manually re-enable 'suid' and disable 'elogind' USE >> >> flags in order to preserve the previous behavior. >> >> Yes, that's what I did months ago, and everything worked fine with >> Xorg using the "suid" flag and without consolekit or elogind -- until >> this morning, when pam refused to upgrade unless I set the elogind USE >> flag. > > The news item said that to retain old behaviour you need to do *BOTH* > - set x11-base/xorg-server suid (which I did in package.use) > - set "-elogind" (which I did in USE in make.conf)
Except starting yesterday, pam no longer allows that. > BTW, I have pam totally masked out... I used to run without pam, but something required it a while back. Maybe I should look into removing pam again. -- Grant
