From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Waldo Bastian Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 15:43:12 +0000 Subject: Re: "console" virtual group for desktop users Message-Id: <200404031743.12919.bastian@kde.org> List-Id: References: <1080968284.14089.88.camel@matt> In-Reply-To: <1080968284.14089.88.camel@matt> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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= .=20 Now user B logs in. The background process of user A would continue to have= =20 the privileges associated with the console group afaik. That may be a=20 problem. Cheers, Waldo - --=20 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>= >> ^ bastian@kde.org | Is your software SUSE LINUX READY? | bastian@suse.com ^<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<= << -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAbtuQN4pvrENfboIRAkdkAKCdsIM4eMsmmF9dC/ZZWUEyYvzhyACeNhSj Uk8m+Q6ntSNzx9jkviwmUXQ=3Dg1GO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- 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_id=1470&alloc_id638&op=CCk _______________________________________________ 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