1wilkens / rdm

A toy display manager written in Rust. Inspired by Slim it aims to provide a simple and elegant login screen.

rdm

A display manager written in Rust. Inspired by Slim it aims to provide a simple and elegant login screen.

THIS IS A WIP AND HAS MAJOR ISSUES RELATED TO SECURITY!! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Current Problems/Questions

• X authorization
  • xauth cookie is generated but
    • not copied to ~/.Xauthority
    • XAUTHORITY environment variable is not set
  • -> Investigate "best practices" and fix!
• Session setup / PAM usage
  • Session setup works(tm) but I am still not sure whether all "best practices" are followed
    • -> Review and validate pam-sys/pam-auth crates
  • reboot/poweroff etc. fail with Failed to power off system via logind: Interactive authentication required.
    • -> Investigate whether this has something to do with systemd
• systemd-logind support
  • Investigate what this actually means
    • Do we need to link against libsystemd.so and call APIs from there?
  • Implement or mark it as done
• dbus support
  • Is this required (maybe for systemd integration)?
  • If so what methods do we need to support?
  • (multi-)seat-API
• Architecture
  • Stay with simple client or use server-client to encapsulate login process
  • Likely related to multiseat support
  • Split into more crates (likely not justified)

Goals

• Support common standards
  • Linux PAM (in review)
  • systemd-logind (?)
  • dbus (?)
• Basic theming support