On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Havoc Pennington wrote:
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 10:32 -0700, Trever L. Adams wrote:
What do you all think? Is this possible (I am fairly sure it is)? Is it
a good thing... I think so?
I think it's possible and good yes, the key thing though is to get it
coded up.
For the first you need either a system daemon that monitors the
utmp/wtmp/lastlog/whatever-it-is or you need each user session to
register somehow with a dbus-specific thing
I already have some code to do this by monitoring both the utmp/wtmp
file for console logins and by looking through running processes for GDM
sessions since (at least at the time and in this particular environment)
GDM wasn't writing out *tmp entries. It was sort of hacked together
code and would certainly need some reworking before being put into a
finished product, but I do have some familiarity with the problem.
Unfortunately it was for a school research project and I don't know what
the ownership around it would be. I can investigate if needed.
- Chris
