[Bug 1450] New: Support for ConsoleKit on Linux through dbus calls

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           Summary: Support for ConsoleKit on Linux through dbus calls     
    Classification: Unclassified                                           
           Product: Portable OpenSSH                                       
           Version: 4.7p1                                                  
          Platform: Other                                                  
               URL: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435521     
        OS/Version: Linux                                                  
            Status: NEW                                                    
          Severity: enhancement                                            
          Priority: P2                                                     
         Component: sshd                                                   
        AssignedTo: bitbucket at mindrot.org                                  
        ReportedBy: t8m at centrum.cz                                         


Created an attachment (id=1474)
 --> (http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/attachment.cgi?id=1474)
Patch by Colin Watson

David Zeuthen:

Colin Watson of Ubuntu developed a patch for adding ConsoleKit support
to
openssh. This is useful because

 - ConsoleKit is evolving into a utmp/wtmp replacement so tracking
users
   logging in via ssh is useful

 - We'll do the right thing on the GNOME Shutdown dialog and prompt
when
   trying to shutdown and there are users logged in via ssh

 - It's the foundation for the PolicyKit authorization framework to
grant
   authorizations to users that only apply when they are logged in from
   a well-known remote host. E.g. right now I'm working on adding
support
   to PolicyKit for this so you can do things like

      polkit-auth --user bateman \
                  --grant org.libvirt.unix.manage \
                  --constraint
remote_host_name:"*.securelab.company.com"

   (Of course this relies on secure DNS but that's another can of
worms)

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