Bug 33677

Summary:	Request for ck-list-sessions to print warning if /proc/<pid>/sessionid is missing.
Product:	ConsoleKit	Reporter:	Samuli Suominen <ssuominen>
Component:	Daemon	Assignee:	william.jon.mccann
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium	CC:	dberkholz, freedesktop-bugs
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Linux (All)
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i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Samuli Suominen 2011-01-29 00:22:03 UTC

If CONFIG_AUDIT_SYSCALL is missing from kernel, then login-session-id will be set to '' at least when using pam_ck_connector.so.
This is all fine for me, but as a maintainer in source based distribution for ConsoleKit I've noticed users don't know about this.
It would be extremely useful if `ck-list-sessions` could print a warning like...

"Can't read /proc/<pid>/sessionid, make sure you have CONFIG_AUDIT_SYSCALL enabled in kernel."

Just a suggestion... Thanks a lot.

- Samuli

Comment 1 Samuli Suominen 2011-04-22 08:41:30 UTC

*Minor typing error in Comment #0, should be CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL instead.

Comment 2 Samuli Suominen 2013-07-25 06:52:14 UTC

well, this is no longer relavent really with pam_systemd.so taking over -> yes, systemd documentation sucks and is missing the requirement, it's still required to get the /proc entries because it's behind #ifdef AUDITSYSCALL in the kernel at /usr/src/linux/fs/proc/base.c line 1066 and below

closing anyway

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