https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=486267
User tambet@novell.com added comment
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=486267#c64
--- Comment #64 from Tambet Ingo 2009-03-31 03:47:51 MDT ---
Some updates... This is not a problem for the majority of distributions because
of two reasons: First, root logins are disabled on Ubuntu/RH/... and second,
there's a specific check in the script that creates the
/var/run/dbus/at_console/$username (it's a different path on other distros, but
used for the same thing) to never create it for root.
Upstream NM wasn't very interested in these changes, mainly to have one common
conf file for distros that still use the old (insecure) DBus and things work
just fine now. It looks like the new configuration file Ludwig wrote will get
accepted, so let's go with this.
Ludwig, could you add a 'rm -rf /var/run/dbus/at_console/*' to one of the
startup scripts (either CK or dbus I guess) to make sure there's no stale
directories there? The problem with these is that whoever is logged in during a
system freeze or hard reset, these users would always be considered as
at_console="true" by DBus. Technically, that would solve this bug as well, so
do we want to proceed with NM applet .conf file changes as well? Do we want to
move the new configuration to NetworkManager package now for released distros?
In that case we need to sync the updates of NetworkManager and all the applets
to all distros...
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