Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 02:21:31PM -0700, Brian Cameron wrote: >> - /usr/lib/gdm-session-worker >> >> A separate process which handles PAM/audit interactions. The >> gdm-simple-slave interacts with it via the gdm-session D-Bus >> interface. The gdm-simple-slave interacts directly with >> gdm-session-worker, while gdm-factory-slave uses a relay >> connection. > > I figure this is obvious, but the materials don't say so... > > On successful login the session should be started by the process that > did the PAM and audit work, or by its progeny, after > pam_open_session(3PAM) is called, and before pam_close_session(3PAM) is > called.
/should/MUST/. If that doesn't happen then the user environment and credentials won't be properly setup. -- Darren J Moffat
