Re: Restoring systemd-ui?

[Lennart Poettering <lennart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Do, 05.12.24 08:11, Ben Boeckel (me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:

> Hi,
>
> At $DAYJOB, we started migrating to 2FA for VPN which has caused me to
> look at how I can get the system service to provoke my user session to
> ask me a prompt for the password. Of course, systemd has a solution for
> it that:
>
>     https://systemd.io/PASSWORD_AGENTS/
>
> which I *can* use, but I need to do plumbing on my side because I use a
> desktop environment cobbled together from pieces :) . I found
> `systemd-ui` which provides a useful tool for those with "minimal"
> desktop setups:
>
>     https://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd-ui
>
> which is…dormant to say the least. Is there any appetite to resurrecting
> this on Github? I have patches to make it work with modern Vala/GTK3
> here:
>
>     https://github.com/mathstuf/systemd-ui/tree/modernize
>
> and metadata needed for actual deployment here (polkit rules and user
> units though install rules are lacking; the agent is also missing a
> manpage):
>
>     https://github.com/mathstuf/systemd-ui/tree/modernize-metadata-wip
>
> FWIW, I think renaming the agent to `systemd-gtk-ask-password-agent`
> might be useful as there's nothing actually GNOME-specific about it.

So I don't think I am the right person to maintain/review that stuff
anyore (haven't done UI stuff in a decade). But if you already prepped
those patches, and think you can invest a bit of time every now and
then to maintain the tool in the future I'd be happy to pass over
maintainership to you, if you are interested?

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Berlin