logind: allow any user to request lingering

We enable lingering for anyone who wants this. It is still disabled by
default to avoid keeping long-running processes accidentally.
Admins might want to customize this policy on multi-user sites.
This commit is contained in:
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2016-04-12 22:52:28 -04:00
parent 921f831d3e
commit 152199f2d7
3 changed files with 16 additions and 5 deletions

5
NEWS
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@ -40,8 +40,9 @@ CHANGES WITH 230 in spe:
After the user logs out of all sessions, user@.service will be
terminated too, by default, unless the user has "lingering" enabled.
To effectively allow users to run long-term tasks even if they are
logged out, lingering must be enabled for them. See loginctl(1)
for details.
logged out, lingering must be enabled for them. See loginctl(1) for
details. The default polkit policy was modified to allow users to
set lingering for themselves without authentication.
Previous defaults can be restored at compile time by the
--without-kill-user-processes option.

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@ -1077,11 +1077,11 @@ static int method_terminate_seat(sd_bus_message *message, void *userdata, sd_bus
static int method_set_user_linger(sd_bus_message *message, void *userdata, sd_bus_error *error) {
_cleanup_free_ char *cc = NULL;
Manager *m = userdata;
int b, r;
int r, b, interactive;
struct passwd *pw;
const char *path;
uint32_t uid;
int interactive;
bool self = false;
assert(message);
assert(m);
@ -1102,6 +1102,8 @@ static int method_set_user_linger(sd_bus_message *message, void *userdata, sd_bu
if (r < 0)
return r;
self = true;
} else if (!uid_is_valid(uid))
return -EINVAL;
@ -1113,7 +1115,7 @@ static int method_set_user_linger(sd_bus_message *message, void *userdata, sd_bu
r = bus_verify_polkit_async(
message,
CAP_SYS_ADMIN,
"org.freedesktop.login1.set-user-linger",
self ? "org.freedesktop.login1.set-self-linger" : "org.freedesktop.login1.set-user-linger",
NULL,
interactive,
UID_INVALID,

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@ -111,6 +111,14 @@
</defaults>
</action>
<action id="org.freedesktop.login1.set-self-linger">
<_description>Allow non-logged-in user to run programs</_description>
<_message>Explicit request is required to run programs as a non-logged-in user.</_message>
<defaults>
<allow_any>yes</allow_any>
</defaults>
</action>
<action id="org.freedesktop.login1.set-user-linger">
<_description>Allow non-logged-in users to run programs</_description>
<_message>Authentication is required to run programs as a non-logged-in user.</_message>