console.perms + <xconsole> + init 3 problem

Michael K. Johnson johnsonm at redhat.com
Mon Aug 4 20:36:02 UTC 2003


On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 06:21:01PM +0200, Peter Backlund wrote:
> There is an easy workaround, namely remove the x from <xconsole> to make 
> nvidia devices fall under the <console> category, but there might be 
> downsides to that, or a better, more general approach (I'm no expert on pam). 

It's fine to do that.  The xconsole class is a proper subset of the
console class as shipped -- see the first two sets of regexps in the
/etc/security/console.perms file where the classes are defined.

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