On Wednesday 15 September 2010 12:36:39 Simon Geard wrote: > 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.
thanks ..had made a luittle progress (I hope) by blind-man-fumble round a circuitous route which may well have ended there. By the way for pulseaudio did you use the released tarball or the stuff from git? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
