From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Mastracci Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 04:58:04 +0000 Subject: "console" virtual group for desktop users Message-Id: <1080968284.14089.88.camel@matt> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org I originally posted this message to Redhat's pam-list, but I didn't receive any responses. I'm not certain if these lists are the best place for it, but I can see possible overlap with some of the Project Utopia and general Linux Hotplug work and thought it could provoke some useful discussion here. The summary of the message is the replacement of the "console.perms" style permissions with a "console" group, whose members would be provided by an nsswitch library. These members would dynamically update as users create/kill X sessions, allowing two locally logged in users with different X sessions to share local devices (ie: /dev/dsp, /dev/dvd, etc.) --- Previous Message --- After having some issues with pam_console applying permissions to some nvidia* files, I was wondering - would it be better to assign these devices a group of "console" and use nsswitch to dynamically assign console users? I've had to reset the permissions of the device to 777, owner root and disable the entry in console.perms, but that does allow non-local users access to these devices. An nsswitch module could just enumerate the entries in /var/run/console/* and return them as part of the console group. These users should then have access to the given console device. Thoughts? -- Matthew Mastracci ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel