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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: muradm <mail@muradm.net>
Cc: Lars-Dominik Braun <lars@6xq.net>,  kiasoc5 <kiasoc5@disroot.org>,
	Brian Cully <bjc@spork.org>,
	 guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why is greetd greeter user in so many groups?
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2022 10:56:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878ro4pet0.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871qtzni25.fsf@muradm.net> (muradm's message of "Tue, 02 Aug 2022 11:44:15 +0300")

Hi,

muradm <mail@muradm.net> skribis:

> This change broke greetd on my side as I am using it with gtkgreet.

Could you open an issue so we keep track of this?

> While greetd is running as root, specific greeter started by it is
> not.
>
> This many groups was required to:
> - make it able starting graphical greeters with user greeter
> - access to seatd's socket file

That sounds surprising to me.  If other distros don’t do that, there
must be something we’re missing?

Anyway, let’s see how to move forward.

Thanks,
Ludo’.


  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-04  8:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-21  4:33 Why is greetd greeter user in so many groups? kiasoc5
2022-06-22 14:17 ` Lars-Dominik Braun
2022-06-22 14:24   ` Brian Cully via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2022-06-23 10:41     ` Lars-Dominik Braun
2022-06-23 12:15       ` Brian Cully via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2022-06-29  7:41         ` Lars-Dominik Braun
2022-06-29 17:59           ` kiasoc5
2022-06-30  7:48             ` Lars-Dominik Braun
2022-08-02  8:44               ` muradm
2022-08-04  8:56                 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2022-08-04 10:04                   ` muradm

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