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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
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