On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 10:44:52AM -0800, Albert Schueller wrote: > Quoting Oswald Buddenhagen: > > that's a bug in PAM i reported almost two years ago (and posted a > > (partial?) patch, even). i didn't look recently, but last time i checked > > they still have not reacted. :( > > The more I think about it, the less enamoured I am with Debian's system > of allocating permissions anyway. I noticed this morning that in order > to grant permission to my users to use the cdrom device I had two > choices: > > 1) grant them membership to the "disk" group, clearly a bad idea > 2) change the group on /dev/hdc to "audio".
Use group cdrom. Hopefully next Debian release will chgrp the cdrom/rw devices automaticly during installation. Achim > > I'm not entirely satisfied with either approach. Redhat has a > device-by-device permission allocation system, which gives a much finer > level of control. Is there a similar scheme in Debian that I just > haven't discovered yet? > > (I realize this is OT, feel free to respond via email) > > A
