This bug is still not fixed? I am running Ubuntu 14.04.2 Desktop. I
installed the desktop fresh, did an apt-get dist-upgrade, and then
attempted to install this package, and failed.
What is the point of continuing to deliver this package, when we know it
cannot be installed?
Without this package
After studying the code and exploring a bit with gdb and a test PAM
module I wrote that simply sets pam_user, I've determined that in fact
lightDM *already* works just fine with a PAM module on the auth stack of
the lightdm-autologin PAM service which sets PAM_USER. I simply hadn't
realized that au
By the way, this doesn't appear to be documented. IMO the existence of
the pam-autologin service vs the pam-greeter service ought to be
documented, as well as this behavior of setting PAM_USER in the pam-
autologin service.
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There are strong reasons to not run processes with full root privileges,
and much work has been done to eliminate setuid executables from the
distros.
One tool in the toolbox for more secure processes is capabilities(7),
which was defined in the (now withdrawn) POSIX 1e draft
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