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The Monday 2007-10-22 at 22:17 -0700, joe wrote:
Patrick Shanahan wrote:
No, file permissions give you rights, not desktop sessions. I can
certainly ssh in and perform the same action.
As a normal user, you don't have sufficient rights to read everything on the
system - many things are not world readable. However, when you start a desktop
session, the session management scheme grants you access to certain desktop
related devices, for instance The local display, sound devices, CD, DVD,
pluggable devices etc.
If you ssh in as you mentioned, while you're already logged into a desktop
session then naturally you've already been granted rights to those devices.
Log out of your desktop session, let somebody else start a local X session,
then you ssh in and try to access those devices that you thought were world
readable - you'll be denied.
That's correct.
However, the OP is using suse 9.3, and things were a bit different then.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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