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[Simon MacMullen <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve Langasek said:
> su *is* the wrong tool to use for starting services, because su *is* defined
> to start PAM sessions.

Gosh, I wish I'd seen that a year ago :)

I hope this is a reasonable place to ask the following question:

So if I can't use su, what can I use? I want to start the rabbit process
as the "rabbitmq" user, and Erlang programs can't easily setuid(3). I'm
not aware of an alternative to su, but I could well be ignorant.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/395281

Title:
  pam_ck_connector.so is called for non-login sessions

Status in GDM: The Gnome Display Manager:
  Fix Released
Status in “consolekit” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “gdm” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gdm

  I have kerneloops installed and with new gdm from karmic the kernoops
  user is listed as real user in the gdm greeter.

  from /etc/passwd
  kernoops:x:112:65534:Kernel Oops Tracking Daemon,,,:/:/bin/false

  kerneloops  version is 0.12-0ubuntu5

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Fri Jul  3 20:48:24 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  Package: gdm 2.26.1-0ubuntu1
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-1.14-generic
  SourcePackage: gdm
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-1-generic i686

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