From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: $local and user change
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 18:37:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040303183704.GB27709@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200403031337.04427.dev@gioelebarabucci.com>
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 01:37:03PM +0100, Gioele Barabucci wrote:
> The $local change is nice, but I have one question about it:
>
> user "joe" plugs his usbkey (or pccard) and use it.
> Then logs out and "jack" logs in. Jack can't use the key (correctly owned by
> "joe", other users should not be able to read it) and can't even remove it
> (need to umount to avoid hw problems).
>
> How should one solve this problem?
Not use the $local rule for such a device? :)
Seriously, it sounds like you should just give the device write access
to a specific group of users, which is much easier to do.
thanks,
greg k-h
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-03 18:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-03 12:37 $local and user change Gioele Barabucci
2004-03-03 18:37 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-03-03 20:08 ` Gioele Barabucci
2004-03-03 20:14 ` Greg KH
2004-03-04 5:28 ` Robert Love
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