standalone PAM for xdg-runtime dir ?

[Mark Hindley]

Dimitris,

Hi,

On Wed, Jun 10, 2026 at 04:41:08PM +0300, Dimitris T. wrote:
> but doesn't turnstile[1] work similarly? iirc, it also creates
> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (?)

Yes it can (and does in the default install). However that is a side effect. Its
real functionality is to run user services.

This is a reflection of the fact that XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is used by multiple
systemd behaviours and when they are extracted into self-contained
implementations, they need to create/use XDG_variables.

Mark