From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Nottingham Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 15:35:18 +0000 Subject: Re: "console" virtual group for desktop users Message-Id: <20040405153517.GA6857@devserv.devel.redhat.com> 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org Matthew Mastracci (matt@aclaro.com) said: > 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.) Temporary membersip in a group = permanent membership in a group. So it's not really a good idea by itself without other restrictions. Bill ------------------------------------------------------- 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