On Thu, 14 Mar 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip - rjk's already dealt with this] > Presumably (I could be wrong) the intent is to either only let users > who are permitted to muck with the console to run it; a more clever > approach would be for login to know which tty's are actually > physically on the console, and have it add that group to your > grouplist for the session [of course, that would permit you to create > a setgid file that permitted you to get the access back anytime you > wanted it, so the former is more likely.]
IIRC, something similar (in the form of a `console daemon', I think) is implemented on some systems; any user logging in on the console is given membership of the appropriate groups (which might be console, audio, cdrom &c.) for the duration of hir login. (S) -- Caius College, Cambridge CB2 1TA, UK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://myrddin.chu.cam.ac.uk/users/osd1000/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `As living soul as a flame.'
