"(" <paren@disroot.org> writes:

> On Mon Aug 8, 2022 at 9:58 AM BST, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Is there a bug report, and do we have system tests for this
>> functionality?
>
> I don't believe there are system tests for greetd, no. There is
> a bug report, though: <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/56971>.
>
>> I admit I know little about greetd and cases where it might be 
>> used.
>
> As I understand it, greetd is a daemon that handles the 
> sensitive parts
> of display managers, which it calls 'greeters'. It allows you to 
> write a
> login program without having to write those difficult and 
> sensitive parts
> by simply writing a GUI that sends JSON messages to the socket 
> when it
> gets input.
For greetd/greeter this is fine explanation.

> So the problem is some greeters try to talk to seatd, but since 
> they
> don't have the right permissions, they bail out.
To be more correct here, greeter that requires both talking to 
greetd
and talking to seatd via libseat. Suppose gtkgreet which is 
running
with sway. So greetd will start greeter which is
"sway -c config-which-starts-gtkgreet.conf". Now you have two 
processes
in the scope of greeter, one is sway which has to talk to swatd 
via
libseat and the other is gtkgreet which is going to talk with 
greetd.

The one who bails out is sway here due to lack of permissions for
seatd.sock for talking to seatd via libseat.

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