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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6
7 <!ENTITY consolekit-download-http "&sources-anduin-http;/c/ConsoleKit-&consolekit-version;.tar.xz">
8 <!ENTITY consolekit-download-ftp " ">
9 <!ENTITY consolekit-md5sum "6aaadf5627d2f7587aa116727e2fc1da">
10 <!ENTITY consolekit-size "356 KB">
11 <!ENTITY consolekit-buildsize "8.0 MB">
12 <!ENTITY consolekit-time "0.3 SBU">
13]>
14
15<sect1 id="consolekit" xreflabel="ConsoleKit-&consolekit-version;">
16 <?dbhtml filename="consolekit.html"?>
17
18 <sect1info>
19 <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
20 <date>$Date$</date>
21 </sect1info>
22
23 <title>ConsoleKit-&consolekit-version;</title>
24
25 <indexterm zone="consolekit">
26 <primary sortas="a-ConsoleKit">ConsoleKit</primary>
27 </indexterm>
28
29 <sect2 role="package">
30 <title>Introduction to ConsoleKit</title>
31
32 <para>
33 The <application>ConsoleKit</application> package is a framework for
34 keeping track of the various users, sessions, and seats present on a system.
35 It provides a mechanism for software to react to changes of any of these
36 items or of any of the metadata associated with them.
37 </para>
38
39 &lfs75_checked;
40
41 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
42 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
43 <listitem>
44 <para>
45 Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&consolekit-download-http;"/>
46 </para>
47 </listitem>
48 <listitem>
49 <para>
50 Download (FTP): <ulink url="&consolekit-download-ftp;"/>
51 </para>
52 </listitem>
53 <listitem>
54 <para>
55 Download MD5 sum: &consolekit-md5sum;
56 </para>
57 </listitem>
58 <listitem>
59 <para>
60 Download size: &consolekit-size;
61 </para>
62 </listitem>
63 <listitem>
64 <para>
65 Estimated disk space required: &consolekit-buildsize;
66 </para>
67 </listitem>
68 <listitem>
69 <para>
70 Estimated build time: &consolekit-time;
71 </para>
72 </listitem>
73 </itemizedlist>
74
75 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">ConsoleKit Dependencies</bridgehead>
76
77 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
78 <para role="required">
79 <xref linkend="dbus-glib"/> and
80 <xref linkend="xorg7-lib"/>
81 </para>
82
83 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
84 <para role="recommended">
85 <xref linkend="linux-pam"/> and
86 <xref linkend="polkit"/>
87 </para>
88
89 <warning>
90 <para>
91 If you intend <emphasis role="strong">NOT</emphasis> to install
92 <application>polkit</application>, you will need to manually edit the
93 ConsoleKit.conf file to lock down the service. Failure to do so may be a
94 huge SECURITY HOLE.
95 </para>
96 </warning>
97
98 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
99 <para role="optional">
100 <xref linkend="xmlto"/>
101 </para>
102
103 <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
104 <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/consolekit"/>
105 </para>
106 </sect2>
107
108 <sect2 role="installation">
109 <title>Installation of ConsoleKit</title>
110
111 <para>
112 Install <application>ConsoleKit</application> by running the following
113 commands:
114 </para>
115
116<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
117 --sysconfdir=/etc \
118 --localstatedir=/var \
119 --enable-udev-acl \
120 --enable-pam-module \
121 --with-systemdsystemunitdir=no &amp;&amp;
122make</userinput></screen>
123
124 <para>
125 This package does not come with a test suite.
126 </para>
127
128 <para>
129 Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
130 </para>
131
132<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
133
134 </sect2>
135
136 <sect2 role="commands">
137 <title>Command Explanations</title>
138
139 <para>
140 <option>--enable-udev-acl</option>: This switch enables building of the
141 <command>udev-acl</command> tool, which is used to allow normal users
142 to access device nodes normally only accessible to
143 <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>.
144 </para>
145
146 <para>
147 <option>--enable-pam-module</option>: This switch enables building of the
148 <application>ConsoleKit</application> <application>PAM</application>
149 module which is needed for <application>ConsoleKit</application> to
150 work correctly with <application>PAM</application>. Remove if
151 <application>Linux PAM</application> is
152 <emphasis role="strong">NOT</emphasis> installed.
153 </para>
154
155 <para>
156 <option>--enable-docbook-docs</option>: Use this switch if
157 <application>xmlto</application> is installed and you wish to
158 build the API documentation.
159 </para>
160
161 <para>
162 <option>--with-systemdsystemunitdir=no</option>: Disable
163 attempting to build with systemd libraries.
164 </para>
165<!--
166 <para><option>- -libexecdir=/usr/lib/ConsoleKit</option>: This option
167 creates a <filename class="directory">ConsoleKit</filename> directory in
168 <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename> instead of putting the
169 program's private executables into <filename
170 class="directory">/usr/libexec</filename> in accordance with the old
171 version of the FHS used before LFS-7.5.</para>
172-->
173 </sect2>
174
175 <sect2 role="configuration">
176 <title>Configuring ConsoleKit</title>
177
178 <sect3>
179 <title>PAM Module Configuration</title>
180
181 <para>
182 If you use <application>Linux PAM</application> you need to
183 configure <application>Linux PAM</application> to activate
184 <application>ConsoleKit</application> upon user login.
185 This can be achieved by editing the
186 <filename>/etc/pam.d/system-session</filename> file as the
187 <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
188 </para>
189
190<screen role="root"><userinput>cat &gt;&gt; /etc/pam.d/system-session &lt;&lt; "EOF"
191# Begin ConsoleKit addition
192
193session optional pam_loginuid.so
194session optional pam_ck_connector.so nox11
195
196# End ConsoleKit addition
197EOF</userinput></screen>
198
199 <para>
200 You will also need a helper script that creates a file in
201 <filename class="directory">/var/run/console</filename>
202 named as the currently logged in user and that contains the
203 <application>D-Bus</application> address of the session. You
204 can create the script by running the following commands as
205 the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
206 </para>
207
208<screen role="root"><userinput>cat &gt; /usr/lib/ConsoleKit/run-session.d/pam-foreground-compat.ck &lt;&lt; "EOF"
209#!/bin/sh
210TAGDIR=/var/run/console
211
212[ -n "$CK_SESSION_USER_UID" ] || exit 1
213[ "$CK_SESSION_IS_LOCAL" = "true" ] || exit 0
214
215TAGFILE="$TAGDIR/`getent passwd $CK_SESSION_USER_UID | cut -f 1 -d:`"
216
217if [ "$1" = "session_added" ]; then
218 mkdir -p "$TAGDIR"
219 echo "$CK_SESSION_ID" &gt;&gt; "$TAGFILE"
220fi
221
222if [ "$1" = "session_removed" ] &amp;&amp; [ -e "$TAGFILE" ]; then
223 sed -i "\%^$CK_SESSION_ID\$%d" "$TAGFILE"
224 [ -s "$TAGFILE" ] || rm -f "$TAGFILE"
225fi
226EOF
227chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/ConsoleKit/run-session.d/pam-foreground-compat.ck</userinput></screen>
228
229 <para>
230 See /usr/share/doc/ConsoleKit/spec/ConsoleKit.html for more
231 configuration.
232 </para>
233
234 </sect3>
235
236 </sect2>
237
238 <sect2 role="content">
239 <title>Contents</title>
240
241 <segmentedlist>
242 <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
243 <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
244 <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
245
246 <seglistitem>
247 <seg>
248 ck-history, ck-launch-session, ck-list-sessions,
249 ck-log-system-restart, ck-log-system-start,
250 ck-log-system-stop and console-kit-daemon
251 </seg>
252 <seg>
253 libck-connector.so and pam_ck_connector.so
254 </seg>
255 <seg>
256 /etc/ConsoleKit,
257 /usr/include/ConsoleKit,
258 /usr/lib/ConsoleKit,
259 /usr/share/doc/ConsoleKit and
260 /var/log/ConsoleKit
261 </seg>
262 </seglistitem>
263 </segmentedlist>
264
265 <variablelist>
266 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
267 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
268 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
269
270<!--
271 <varlistentry id="ck-history">
272 <term><command>ck-history</command></term>
273 <listitem>
274 <para>does this .....</para>
275 <indexterm zone="consolekit ck-history">
276 <primary sortas="b-ck-history">ck-history</primary>
277 </indexterm>
278 </listitem>
279 </varlistentry>
280
281 <varlistentry id="ck-launch-session">
282 <term><command>ck-launch-session</command></term>
283 <listitem>
284 <para>does this .....</para>
285 <indexterm zone="consolekit ck-launch-session">
286 <primary sortas="b-ck-launch-session">ck-launch-session</primary>
287 </indexterm>
288 </listitem>
289 </varlistentry>
290-->
291
292 <varlistentry id="ck-list-sessions">
293 <term><command>ck-list-sessions</command></term>
294 <listitem>
295 <para>list sessions with respective properties. Also good for
296 debugging purposes.</para>
297 <indexterm zone="consolekit ck-list-sessions">
298 <primary sortas="b-ck-list-sessions">ck-list-sessions</primary>
299 </indexterm>
300 </listitem>
301 </varlistentry>
302<!--
303 <varlistentry id="ck-log-system-restart">
304 <term><command>ck-log-system-restart</command></term>
305 <listitem>
306 <para>does this .....</para>
307 <indexterm zone="consolekit ck-log-system-restart">
308 <primary sortas="b-ck-log-system-restart">ck-log-system-restart</primary>
309 </indexterm>
310 </listitem>
311 </varlistentry>
312
313 <varlistentry id="ck-log-system-start">
314 <term><command>ck-log-system-start</command></term>
315 <listitem>
316 <para>does this .....</para>
317 <indexterm zone="consolekit ck-log-system-start">
318 <primary sortas="b-ck-log-system-start">ck-log-system-start</primary>
319 </indexterm>
320 </listitem>
321 </varlistentry>
322
323 <varlistentry id="ck-log-system-stop">
324 <term><command>ck-log-system-stop</command></term>
325 <listitem>
326 <para>does this .....</para>
327 <indexterm zone="consolekit ck-log-system-stop">
328 <primary sortas="b-ck-log-system-stop">ck-log-system-stop</primary>
329 </indexterm>
330 </listitem>
331 </varlistentry>
332
333 <varlistentry id="console-kit-daemon">
334 <term><command>console-kit-daemon</command></term>
335 <listitem>
336 <para>is the <application>ConsoleKit</application> daemon.</para>
337 <indexterm zone="consolekit console-kit-daemon">
338 <primary sortas="b-console-kit-daemon">console-kit-daemon</primary>
339 </indexterm>
340 </listitem>
341 </varlistentry>
342
343 <varlistentry id="ck-collect-session-info">
344 <term><command>ck-collect-session-info</command></term>
345 <listitem>
346 <para>does this .....</para>
347 <indexterm zone="consolekit ck-collect-session-info">
348 <primary sortas="b-ck-collect-session-info">ck-collect-session-info</primary>
349 </indexterm>
350 </listitem>
351 </varlistentry>
352
353 <varlistentry id="ck-get-x11-display-device">
354 <term><command>ck-get-x11-display-device</command></term>
355 <listitem>
356 <para>does this .....</para>
357 <indexterm zone="consolekit ck-get-x11-display-device">
358 <primary sortas="b-ck-get-x11-display-device">ck-get-x11-display-device</primary>
359 </indexterm>
360 </listitem>
361 </varlistentry>
362
363 <varlistentry id="ck-get-x11-server-pid">
364 <term><command>ck-get-x11-server-pid</command></term>
365 <listitem>
366 <para>does this .....</para>
367 <indexterm zone="consolekit ck-get-x11-server-pid">
368 <primary sortas="b-ck-get-x11-server-pid">ck-get-x11-server-pid</primary>
369 </indexterm>
370 </listitem>
371 </varlistentry>
372
373 <varlistentry id="ck-system-restart">
374 <term><command>ck-system-restart</command></term>
375 <listitem>
376 <para>does this .....</para>
377 <indexterm zone="consolekit ck-system-restart">
378 <primary sortas="b-ck-system-restart">ck-system-restart</primary>
379 </indexterm>
380 </listitem>
381 </varlistentry>
382
383 <varlistentry id="ck-system-stop">
384 <term><command>ck-system-stop</command></term>
385 <listitem>
386 <para>does this .....</para>
387 <indexterm zone="consolekit ck-system-stop">
388 <primary sortas="b-ck-system-stop">ck-system-stop</primary>
389 </indexterm>
390 </listitem>
391 </varlistentry>
392
393 <varlistentry id="libck-connector">
394 <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libck-connector.so</filename></term>
395 <listitem>
396 <para>contains functions that .....</para>
397 <indexterm zone="consolekit libck-connector">
398 <primary sortas="c-libck-connector">libck-connector.so</primary>
399 </indexterm>
400 </listitem>
401 </varlistentry>
402
403 <varlistentry id="pam_ck_connector">
404 <term><filename class='libraryfile'>pam_ck_connector.so</filename></term>
405 <listitem>
406 <para>contains functions that .....</para>
407 <indexterm zone="consolekit pam_ck_connector">
408 <primary sortas="c-pam_ck_connector">pam_ck_connector.so</primary>
409 </indexterm>
410 </listitem>
411 </varlistentry>
412-->
413 </variablelist>
414
415 </sect2>
416
417</sect1>
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