On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 01:53:09PM +0000, Mark Hindley wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 08:39:45AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > Just wondering -- did it refuse to boot or be otherwise seriously 
> > unusable until you had installed elogind and libelogind0?  Were your 
> > text-only consoles affected? Or did it just interfere with desktops?
> > 
> > And just curious -- never heard of these before systemd.  What do they 
> > do?
> 
> >From https://github.com/elogind/elogind/:
> 
>  'The systemd project's "logind", extracted to a standalone package'
> 
> It keeps a record of logins, seats and sessions and maps pids to those so that
> desktoppy things like being able to reboot from the desktop work without 
> having
> to become root.

I see.  So in effect it provides a privilege check on rebooting.

-- hendrik
_______________________________________________
Dng mailing list
Dng@lists.dyne.org
https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Reply via email to