On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Thomas Gebhardt wrote: > is there a safe way to supply the user who is sitting in front > of the console (logged in with xdm) with special permissions > (i.e., to access the floppy, /dev/audio and cdrom? > > Thanks for any hint!
If you don't use PAM then check out the CONSOLE_GROUPS option of the /etc/login.defs file. If you do use PAM then check out /etc/pam/login and /etc/security/group.conf. The PAM way is probably "safer" than the login.defs method, but "convenient" is a better word in both cases. - Bruce
