Re: Why is greetd greeter user in so many groups?

[muradm]

Hi,

Here you are: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=56971

I added explanations and proposed solution there as well.

Thanks in advance,
muradm

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> muradm <mail@muradm.net> skribis:
>
> > This change broke greetd on my side as I am using it with 
> > gtkgreet.
>
> Could you open an issue so we keep track of this?
>
> > While greetd is running as root, specific greeter started by it 
> > is
> > not.
> >
> > This many groups was required to:
> > - make it able starting graphical greeters with user greeter
> > - access to seatd's socket file
>
> That sounds surprising to me.  If other distros don’t do that, 
> there
> must be something we’re missing?
>
> Anyway, let’s see how to move forward.
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.

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