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, say, local optical drives to > incidental ldap users who aren't automatically in the device groups > since they're not local users. > > Our solution was to use pam. By adding these lines to the > /etc/security/group.conf file: > > *;:0|tty*&!ttyp*;*;Al0000-2400;dialout,dip,audio,video > *;*;*;Al0000-2400;cdrom,floppy,scanner,plugdev,storage,vboxusers,fuse > > console users are added, for example, to the audio/video groups while > anyone who logs in from anywhere is added to the cdrom/scanner groups > (this allows users to use the scanners and optical devices remotely). > > I'm most curious to know if there is now a better way of providing this > functionality to network users. > Provided they are on the same physical console as the local optical drive, this is done automatically.
Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com
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