Removal of pam_console questions
Linus Walleij
triad at df.lth.se
Wed Nov 7 17:07:48 UTC 2007
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Bill Nottingham wrote:
[thanks for answering...]
>> They both create a node /dev/libxxx-nnn and (...)
>
> They 'both create a node'... is this a manually created device node,
> not through udev?
It's created by udev, in order for pam_console to have something to hold
on to, since it's a link to /dev/usb/00x/0yy/... (unpredictable, opaque
device node).
This is then used by USB like the usermode scanner driver in
sane-backends. (Same method there I think.)
Linus
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