Hisham Muhammad wrote:
> On 3/12/07, Carlo Calica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On 3/12/07, Jonatan Liljedahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> <snip> Discussion about console group </snip>
>>
>>> An admin that wish to add networked users without such privileges would
>>> probably already know how to remove them from the console group by
>>> editing /etc/group.
>>>
>> This seems reasonable.  My concern is diverging from a set of rules as
>> shipped with udev.  My preference would be to use a set of rules from
>> one of the large distros.  A sed script could be the answer.
> 
> Yes, reusing another distro's set of rules would be the
> lowest-overhead solution, I think. I believe many of them use the
> console group already, so they may already have rules outlined in the
> same direction this discussion is heading.

Many distro's are using PAM, such that PAM will be called by udev to
adjust the permissions of new device nodes. For example to let console
users have read/write access to certain stuff...
I guess this is the path we should go too, if not now then later?

-- 
/Jonatan - http://kymatica.com
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