From: Luca Boccassi Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2024 23:27:31 +0000 (+0000) Subject: NEWS: mention logind inhibitors change X-Git-Tag: v257-rc1~814^2 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=refs%2Fpull%2F30307%2Fhead;p=thirdparty%2Fsystemd.git NEWS: mention logind inhibitors change --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0c469058818..7ae3614065f 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -31,6 +31,17 @@ CHANGES WITH 257 in spe: by default when combined with --scope, will be changed in a future release to be enabled by default. + * systemd-logind now always obeys inhibitor locks, where previously it + ignored locks taken by the caller or when the caller was root. A + privileged caller can always close the other sessions, remove the + inhibitor locks, or use --force or --check-inhibitors=no to ignore the + inhibitors. This change thus doesn't affect security, since everything + that was possible before at a given privilege level is still possible, + but it should make the inhibitor logic easier to use and understand, + and also help avoiding accidental reboots and shutdowns. New 'delay-weak' + and 'block-weak' inhibitor modes were added, if taken they will make + the inhibitor lock work as in the previous versions. + — , CHANGES WITH 256: