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greeter user permissions are not enough to talk with seatd

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From: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> ist.tugraz.at>
To: muradm <mail <at> muradm.net>
Cc: control <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 56971 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56971: greeter user permissions are not enough to talk with seatd
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2022 08:11:21 +0200

Am Donnerstag, dem 04.08.2022 um 15:52 +0300 schrieb muradm:
> 
> Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> ist.tugraz.at> writes:
> 
> > [...] [L]ooking at the two patches, it appears they are to 
> > be used in combination?
> > 
> No, technically they are not strongly dependent on each other,
> could be applied one after another in no particular order.
> After both are applied, in cooperation they address this issue.
This is what I'm saying, albeit in different words.  As far as I
understand, neither of these patches really accomplishes anything if
not put together.  Thus, you more or less opened three issues to
address one.

> > 
> seatd it self has to run as root.
Okay.

> That TODO is from the initial commit, it is about cgroup file
> system mounting, and totally out of scope of this issue.
I didn't mean your code, I meant a suggestion from a reviewer that you
haven't addressed yet (to my knowledge at least).

Cheers

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