On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 01:25:01PM -0000, Grant Edwards wrote > On 2020-07-22, Ashley Dixon <a...@suugaku.co.uk> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 02:29:48AM -0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> 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. > > > > Look at REQUIRED_USE in sys-auth/pambase ebuild [1]: > > REQUIRED_USE="?? ( consolekit elogind systemd )" > > > > I.e., "zero or one of `consolekit`, `elogind`, or `systemd` must be set, > > but not several". > > Right. Contrary to what the news article says, you can not just enable > 'suid' on xorg-server and run without consolekit/elogind/systemd.
I'm doing that right now, so yes it does work. Please re-read Ashley Dixon's post... "zero or one of". I have zero of them set. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
