On Monday 19 December 2005 15:55, C. Gatzemeier wrote: > Profiles are not active upon logins like ssh -X since the > desktop-profiles script is an xsession.d script.
> If desktop-profiles could be activated with a PAM module the behaviour > could be the same regardless how the user entered the system. > The problem came to my attention when a user starting kmail over ssh -X > lost his settings aferwards. The loss of data is a bug in kmail, but it > hinted to the missing profiles. Note that a similar problem is activer for the gnupg-agent package whose Xsession.d-script also does some setup used by kmail (when using gpg-signing in any case), and possibly other packages adding Xsession.d scripts. Note also that sshd_config(5) tels us that: - sshd only uses PAM when UsePAM is set to yes - that setting defaults to 'no' => creating a PAM-module doesn't seam like a real solution Looking at sshd(8) I see that there's /etc/ssh/sshrc to be used formachine-specific global login-time initializations. => at this point I'm thinking we should convince the ssh maintainers to add a mechanism similar to Xsession.d/ that could be used by desktop-profiles, gnupg-agent and similar packages. -- mvg, Bart Cornelise
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