"Christopher W. Curtis" wrote:
>
> "H. Peter Anvin" wrote:
> >
> > Your boxes don't have 6 consoles. They might have 6 terminals attached
> > to them, but there is ever only one console.
>
> Well, okay, there is one keyboard/monitor, but I can hit alt-f2 and
> login "at the console" as another user. (And that extends to each
> computer on the KVM switch, but isn't really relevant.) I didn't know
> there was a way to hook into console switching to change the permissions
> of the floppy, and if there were, that sounds more like a security issue
> than grabbing the uid of the pid trying to access an automount mount.
>
Umm... virtual consoles aren't "the console" (/dev/console) really.
They are a funny hybrid of normal terminal and "the console" generally
(the kernel defaults the console to /dev/tty0 "the current console" --
which does indeed follow you around. You can't log into /dev/tty0 at
all.)
-hpa
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