Description of problem: This is mostly a tracker bug for what needs to be done in order to achieve the goal of only having access to a local device if you are in a local active session. For example multiple sessions is what you have with f-u-s http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Desktop/FastUserSwitching Right now, if you've got administrative privileges, this can be overridden by dropping a hal fdi file, see bug 140853 and bug 229912 for details. As noted in the former bug, the exact format and documentation for such needs to be finalized. More importantly, the kernel needs to provide a revoke() mechanism so we can revoke access to particular devices for a particular user when a session becomes inactive. Will open a separate bug for this.
The revoke() bit is tracked in bug 230006.
Browsing the code some initial comments: - Consolekit doesn't support remote processes (can't read remote proc). - Consolekit cannot handle processes which have multiple X seats open at once. - Consolekit should pass cookies explicitly not dig unsafely in the environment of other processes. - Consolekit should support kerberos keys (fixes remote problem), or at least an expansion path by putting a key type in the cookie/passed value. - The /proc/tty parser should check newlines or it may be fooled by future upgrades. - Cookie may not it appears be unique across multiple hosts with remote X users
Based on the date this bug was created, it appears to have been reported against rawhide during the development of a Fedora release that is no longer maintained. In order to refocus our efforts as a project we are flagging all of the open bugs for releases which are no longer maintained. If this bug remains in NEEDINFO thirty (30) days from now, we will automatically close it. If you can reproduce this bug in a maintained Fedora version (7, 8, or rawhide), please change this bug to the respective version and change the status to ASSIGNED. (If you're unable to change the bug's version or status, add a comment to the bug and someone will change it for you.) Thanks for your help, and we apologize again that we haven't handled these issues to this point. The process we're following is outlined here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp We will be following the process here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping to ensure this doesn't happen again.
This bug has been in NEEDINFO for more than 30 days since feedback was first requested. As a result we are closing it. If you can reproduce this bug in the future against a maintained Fedora version please feel free to reopen it against that version. The process we're following is outlined here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp