Sound daemons such as esd and artsd are used to allow users to play sounds without chowning the /dev entries
consolehelper is actually just a pretty wrapper for 'su'. It's used mainly so that users can use the XFree86-based configuration utilities in Red Hat without having to log out of an X session and log back in as root or having to mess with the console. -Tim On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 00:13, -ray wrote: > > Yes it does create a small security hole.... when someone gets into your > machine they can play their own mp3's, hahaha. I wouldn't worry about it > too much. Typically you only use one user anyway, so you could just chown > it to that user. > > Redhat (maybe mandrake?) at one time had an app call consolehelper. It > would automatically set permissions when a user logged into the console. > It would set perms of /dev files (sound, floppy, cdrom, etc) so the > current user had access, and revoke the perms when they logout. That is > how it should work....haven't looked into it in a long time so i don't > know how it should work now. > > -Ray > -- > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org > Systems Engineer Southeastern Louisiana University > IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX Support > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > > > On 3 Oct 2002, Alvaro Zuniga wrote: > > > I was thinking about what I did with the sound devices. That would be a > > security hole would it not? The devices are owned by root and the group > > is sys and I am giving read and write privileges to the world. How > > should those devices be modified? > > > > Is it possible to have the /dev/mixer and /dev/dsp as the user and it's > > group? That would mean that they would be created on demand. How? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Alvaro > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://host19.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
