"Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > GNU/Hurd is quite an unfinished system, > > The only finished systems are the ones that are dead. > > I know about Xnest and I think it's a good idea, but it does not > fix general design lacks in XFree86. > > Fixing XFree86 is kinda out of the scope of GNU/Hurd... > > If something like an error, that was not caused by user > interaction, happens on a display you are not working at, you can > be notified about it. > > Anything wrong with how it does it now? > > Either provides your UI a notification callback that opens e.g. a > notification window, or is the display simply switched by the > underlying tty driver. > > This is usally called a log-monitor. > > Things like these are typical tasks for a console user: > - turn off the computer (on desktop machines) > > Also a typical task for a remote user; atleast w.r.t. to rebooting > which is essentially the same with some minor details. > > - access the sound card and the mixer > > Ditto. I infact use the mixer and play songs remotely each and > everyday. > > - start X sessions on the local machine > > X doesn't really differentiate between local and remove machines from > what I know. So a remote X session is essentially the same as a local > one. > > The current console user(s) should have almost root rights > (regarding hardware access, so not installing software), > > Why give the user root access at all? Just make a new group and user, > call them mixer for the mixer example. And then make the owner of > /dev/mixer mixer, and the group mixer. Then just plunk in all users > that want to change the volume into the group mixer. > > Or just allow everyone to read/write to /dev/mixer, which is obviously > the right thing todo. > > on the other hand the network users should have less rights (it > usually doesn't make sense when a remote user is permitted to turn > the volume up and to play an annoying sound ...). > > Why not? I think it makes perfect sense. Say I have a "audio system", > that plays songs. I connect to it remotely; shouldn't I be able to > change the volume there? Should I be _forced_ to go to the console to > change the volume? I think being able to change the volume remote would be a nice feature.
> > Saying what a user should be allowed to or not based on from where he > or she is login in from is anti-social. Agreed > Cheerio. > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-hurd mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd Harley D. Eades III _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
