On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 10:14 +0100, luxInteg wrote: > On Sunday 12 September 2010 05:02:12 Simon Geard wrote: > > There's also a 4th category, incidentally, which is where the distros > > are moving to, and which I use on my machine. That is, ConsoleKit and > > udev without HAL - using ACLs to grant and revoke permissions over the > > lifetime of a user session. It's probably equivalent to category 2 or 3, > > but with one fewer elements involved. Works for me as a Gnome user; not > > being a KDE user, > > and lo could ignorant blfs-ers beseech'th thee to share thy great > secret ?
Nothing particularly fancy that I can think of. The ACL support is provided by the package of that name in the BLFS book. A rebuild of udev is needed, so that it will use that ACL support - again, pretty much by the BLFS book. And of course, ConsoleKit to manage when a user logs in or out. Oh, and critically, make sure ACL support is enabled for the tmpfs filesystem (CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL=y). That was the one thing that gave me trouble when I first tried doing things this way, since if tmpfs doesn't support ACLs, you can't use ACLs to grant permissions to devices under /dev. Simon.
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