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Re: systemd-fsck?



Hi,

Steve Langasek:
> As the maintainer of the pam package in Debian, I assure you: this is a bug
> in dirmngr.  System services should not (must not) call interfaces that
> launch pam sessions as part of their init scripts.  su is one of those
> interfaces.
> 
How difficult would it be, for the sake of compatibility if nothing else,
to teach su not to create a new PAM session when it doesn't already run
within one?

… and … would we, as a project, actually _want_ to do that?

-- 
-- Matthias Urlichs


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