console.perms + <xconsole> + init 3 problem
Peter Backlund
peter.backlund at home.se
Mon Aug 4 21:01:13 UTC 2003
On Monday 04 August 2003 22.36, Michael K. Johnson wrote:
> 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.
>
I wasn't very clear about it, but I do consider this to be a bug. If you boot
to runlevel 3, log in and start X, you don't get ownership of the nvidia*
devices (which is needed to run OpenGL applications).
So, should it post it to Bugzilla, or my reasoning way off?
/Peter
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