Permissions problem

[Michael K. Johnson]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 05:00:47PM +0000, Paul Jakma wrote:
> Why dont just approach the problem from a different angle? Rather
> than assigning ownership of the device to the local user, which just
> doesnt work for multi-head/multi-Xserver setups (first logged in user
> 'hogs' local devices), instead have pam_console assign console users
> a 'local' or 'console' group which then gives them access to devices
> which should only be avaiable from console (eg sound/webcam), all the

$ cp /bin/bash givemeconsole
$ chmod g+s givemeconsole

(later, logged in remotely:)
$ ./givemeconsole

You might search the pam-list archives, where this was discussed in
detail.

michaelkjohnson

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