Re: orbit-name-server and esd

["Brandon S. Allbery" <allbery ece cmu edu>]

In message <3659BABB.F00E0197@alphalink.com.au>, Andrew Clausen writes:
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| raster@redhat.com wrote:
| > On 24 Nov, Andrew Clausen scribbled:
| > ->  I think esd should be started by init.  When a user logs in, it claims 
| ownership of esd.  Then
| > ->  when the user logs out, it "disowns" it.  Does this sound right?
| >
| > that is how it should work - at least in a proper distribution setup
| > environment.
| 
| How should this be done?  Should we have a process in gnome-session that clai
| ms ownership, and sits.
| When it gets killed by gnome-session, it traps it, and disowns esd.
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I'm doing it in the [gx]dm configuration, along with the chown of the console, 
etc.  This is preferable to trying to insure that the user session does it; 
otherwise you're looking at a potential denial of service by a malicious user. 
 (Granting that no sound isn't that serious a DoS, but the concept applies and 
one should be used to thinking in that fashion.)

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