PAM and USB devices

[Michael A. Peters]

I'm seeking information on the proper way (in Fedora) to deal with  
getting PAM to authenticate users for usb devices.

In particular, I'm talking about the Ti Silverlink cable for Ti  
Graphing Calculators. Fedora already comes with the kernel module, the  
software already works with a serial cable (if you set up /etc/ 
security/console.perms to give the serial device to the console user) -  
serial cable doesn't require a kernel module (anymore, it use to)

The problem I'm having with the software (TiLP) and USB isn't just  
limited to authentication, but that is a hurdle I'll need to overcome  
once I get it to work with the root user (which it currently does not).

The device node part is easy - same procedure as serial ports.
Problem is that the software also (for some reason) wants the user to  
have permission to write (according to the error log anyway) to /proc/ 
bus/usb/devices - that I don't think can be properly overcome with pam  
console, and if it can - I would be scared to do so because that looks  
way too generic to let the console user write to it, so maybe it's the  
software that is broken - but maybe I'm not understanding how user  
space apps are suppose to talk to usb devices?

I'm not the TiLP developer, just someone trying to get it to work w/  
usb in FC3 - and having little success (I did get it work ONCE as root  
in FC2)

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