Am Fre, 23 Jun 2000 schrieben Sie:
> Frank van Maarseveen wrote:
> > This reminds me what KDE does with
> > "consolehelper". This permits a non-root user to do all kind of things
> > as root, provided the person sits behind the machine (tty must be a
> > virtual console I believe). After all, in that position one can usually
> > kick the hardware or do other disturbing things.
>
> Note that Red Hat and probably other distros do with or without a GUI.
> See /etc/security/console.perms.
The problem with that approach is that an USB device need not be
present when you log in. To handle permissions together with
hotplugging a demon must be running. And it needs kernel hooks to
work without races. In addition you'll likely need to load a driver
before you can decide on permissions, e.g. on an ordinary printer
everyone may print, but not on the foto quality expensive ink printer.
There is no sense in duplicating devfs+devfsd.
Oliver
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