standalone PAM for xdg-runtime dir ?

[Matthias Geiger]

On Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:54, Mark Hindley <mark at hindley.org.uk> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On Wed, Jun 10, 2026 at 02:23:32PM +0200, Matthias Geiger wrote:
>> This https://github.com/cernops/pam_xdg_runtime_dir is a standalone PAM
>> module that just creates that. Am I correct in assuming this would me to
>> just allow me to run seatd with my window manager?
>
>I don't think it is that simple.
>
>IIUC, the relevant window manager needs to have libseat support added. Libseat
>then uses whichever backend (logind, elogind, seatd) it finds or is configured
>to use by the runtime environment variable LIBSEAT_BACKEND.
>
Right, but in my case this is sway, which Depends: libwlroots-20 which 
Depends: libseat1. That should work then, right? I will try later in a 
VM, but don't want test on my current machine.

AFAICT multiple packages Recommend: logind, but nothing important has it 
as Depends: .

best,

werdahias