Re: group access to local devices on shared networked machines

2009-05-08 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 11:36 -0500, Patrick Goetz wrote: > Scott James Remnant wrote: > > Provided they are on the same physical console as the local optical > > drive, this is done automatically. > > > > Well, we need to retain the option of people ssh'ing to the machine and > using the optical

Re: group access to local devices on shared networked machines

2009-05-08 Thread Patrick Goetz
Scott James Remnant wrote: >> > Provided they are on the same physical console as the local optical > drive, this is done automatically. > Well, we need to retain the option of people ssh'ing to the machine and using the optical drive remotely; however even for users logged in on the console, t

Re: group access to local devices on shared networked machines

2009-05-08 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 10:28 -0500, Patrick Goetz wrote: > Would anyone care to elaborate on this, as we brought this up with > Canonical support well over a year ago for Hardy and no good solution > was offered at that time (so we came up with our own). > > The problem: how to provide access to,