-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am Donnerstag, 24. Oktober 2002 03:09 schrieb bascule: > this devfs thing is really starting to hack me off, i see no reason why > the 'first' user to log on locally gets to be 'king of audio'. > if i try to avoid using devfs will this behaviour change?
Hi, this is not a feature of devfs but of a little pam-module called pam_console (see man pam_console). > i thought groups were the way to handle this sort of thing, but my > ability to customise my machine is being removed by automation that > requires actual coding skills to get around limitations it's introducing > 'to make things easier' na, you can see it both sides. In about more than 80% the standard behavior is no miss. an a poweruser in any case changes the whole system. > i think mandrake should stop and consider the few folk for whom auto > mountpoint creation for usb/removable devices is a pita and permissions > getting set whether you like it or not, are not helpful, and allow us to > opt out easily > > thanks for the info, i won't of course be doing anything about this now, > i'll be too busy learning perl just to be able to understand what > happens when i plug in my camera - let alone change it! (i don't think) > > can you tell i'm annoyed? > > bascule > Martin - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------ H E L I X Gesellschaft f�r Software & Engineering mbH - ------------------------------------------------------------ Hanauer Landstrasse 52 Telefon (069) 4789 35-30 60314 Frankfurt am Main Telefax (069) 4789 35-44 - ------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.helix-gmbh.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ------------------------------------------------------------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9t5FCBG198cnayKQRAnu4AJ9OR0OYODVtOVyO0hgJShOhAoJk1QCdHdzb 2lNs/+e2MLWxlO5dUuEUW5s= =0xC9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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