On Mon, 25 May 2020 13:31:49 +0000 dal <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear list, > > A round of searching and reading did not give me any usable > explanation of Subj on Devuan. > > More specifically, static assignment of users to the "audio"/"video" > groups is not applicable (on shared, remotely accessible computers). > > It looks like ConsoleKit used to be the answer in Debian, > but in my testing on Beowulf the consolekit package is not compatible > with any desktop environment besides xfce. > > Is this an inherent limitation somewhere, a packaging bug > or otherwise a misunderstanding on my part? > > Regards, > /D
My understanding is that it is a inherent limitation of *nix. Based on the permissions of a user are defined on login and can not be changed unless the use logs in again in after they gain the desired permission(s) and thus access to devices and which they can only do if they are already defined as a user on that particular system. Depending on your particular needs, the simple way around this is to define each user on all systems and the user can then ssh, or whatever and run the application. As our SOHO is small, this is what we do, although I'm the only one sometimes inclined to ssh;aplay test.wav or such to determine a user problem. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
