[vconsole-discuss] help review updated virtual console spec

2006-11-03 Thread Riny Qian
Darren J Moffat wrote: Riny Qian wrote: Darren J Moffat wrote: Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote: Which I take to mean do not update /etc/logindevperm with /dev/vt/# entries so that login on a VT doesn't get changes to any of the devices. That at least means this project doesn't make

[vconsole-discuss] help review updated virtual console spec

2006-11-02 Thread Riny Qian
Darren J Moffat wrote: So it seems that our ACL proposal for other console devices in /etc/logindevperm is fine, and it does not introduce any regression. What your proposal does is allow multiple people access to the device at the same time. That isn't possible today. I believe that

[vconsole-discuss] help review updated virtual console spec

2006-10-31 Thread Darren J Moffat
Alan Coopersmith wrote: Darren J Moffat wrote: /dev/console could, I believe, be a serial line. That means that the console could be in a physically separate location to the usb attached keyboard/mouse and the monitor. In that case it may not be desirable that root can login on the