also sprach Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.06.22.2256 +0200]: > Red Hat has a nice PAM library that lets people access, say, the sound
nice. right. > devices when they log in on the console. Thus anyone who logs in > automatically has access to the sound devices. However, this facility > appears to be lacking in Sarge. by choice, yes. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/06/msg00944.html check out pam_group and /etc/security/group.conf for another approach, which is not secure (read comments), but a little better. > Except that Debian seems to have some mechanism which, at boot > time, resets the group ownership of /dev files. You are probably using udev which creates them after boot. dpkg -l udev > Anyone know how I can make this stop? Or alternately, know a > different way to solve this which I have not already discussed? You could help with modularisation of makedev, which will allow you to specify policies for device files. > FWIW, as a long-time system administrator of Unix systems in > a wide variety of environments, I consider this behavior highly > undesireable, and would like to suggest to any developers > listening that they consider changing that behavior. dpkg -P udev you get what you ask for. Now if you're not using devfs but a plain /dev, you should be fine. df /dev | grep -q '/$' && echo now everything should be okay \ || echo got work to do -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer and author: http://debiansystem.info `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system "moderation is a fatal thing. enough is as bad as a meal. more than enough is as good as a feast." -- oscar wilde
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