standalone PAM for xdg-runtime dir ?

[Matthias Geiger]

On Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:39, Mark Hindley <mark at hindley.org.uk> wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 10, 2026 at 03:28:42PM +0200, Matthias Geiger wrote:
>> Ah, thanks for confirming. I am wondering whether it would make sense to
>> package https://github.com/cernops/pam_xdg_runtime_dir then to have a
>> standalone PAM creating XDG_RUNTIME_DIR.
>
>Could do. libpam-ck-connector is already packaged and does just that. I has
>pretty minimal dependencies.
>
Thanks, the only remaining issue is polkit Depends: logind; and I 
occasionally need the former to run e.g. gparted. Does polkitd work with 
a dummy logind virtual package built with equivs?

best,

werdahias