From: Waldo Bastian <bastian@kde.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "console" virtual group for desktop users
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 15:43:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200404031743.12919.bastian@kde.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1080968284.14089.88.camel@matt>
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On Sat April 3 2004 06:58, Matthew Mastracci wrote:
> 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?
Assume that user A logs in, starts a background process, and logs out again.
Now user B logs in. The background process of user A would continue to have
the privileges associated with the console group afaik. That may be a
problem.
Cheers,
Waldo
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-03 15:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-03 4:58 "console" virtual group for desktop users Matthew Mastracci
2004-04-03 15:43 ` Waldo Bastian [this message]
2004-04-03 18:36 ` Matthew Mastracci
2004-04-05 15:35 ` Bill Nottingham
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