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[PATCH] Services: Check and modify gdm-password in pam-limits

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Message #14 received at 37405 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
To: Jesse Gibbons <jgibbons2357 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 37405 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#37405] [PATCH] Services: Check and modify gdm-password in
 pam-limits
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 01:00:32 +0200

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Hi,

thanks for the patch.

I'm not thrilled about that approach (arguably Guix already does it wrong
anyway).

But since the manual of pam_limits does describe that one should use it
like that, I have applied it as a stop-gap fix to guix master as
commit 0bf7d34d77ffca40be9e04586195054e9f2c7a13.

Long term, we should really make pam entries first class and show up in the
operating-system record--that's what they are FOR: to let the administrator
(and thus the organization) choose how they want to do user
authorization/session handling etc.  Why do we decide for them?

Bug report kept open for obvious reasons.

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