Re: [Cooker] Very strange permissions change on /dev/*

2001-03-04 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah 

Andrej Borsenkow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Is it Mandrake specific or general Linux feature?

pam, a Linux feature in general !! see the documentation of the pam package.

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Re: [Cooker] Very strange permissions change on /dev/*

2001-03-04 Thread Andrej Borsenkow 

On 4 Mar 2001, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote:

 Andrej Borsenkow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

  Is it Mandrake specific or general Linux feature?

 pam, a Linux feature in general !! see the documentation of the pam package.



Actually, documentation to pam does not mention pam_console
(pam-doc-0.74-1mdk).

Thank you very much!

-andrej

Re: [Cooker] Very strange permissions change on /dev/*

2001-03-04 Thread R.I.P. Deaddog 


That sounds reasonable, who would want remote users to access all those
devices?

Abel Cheung


On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Andrej Borsenkow wrote:

 This was brought to my attention by one Usent postig; I must admit I never
 before noticed it and IIRC it does not happen on other Uices.
 
 When user logs in, owner of some /dev/* files are change to this
 user. I do not mean ttys (this is normal) but audio/video/floppy/CDs
 nodes. If another user logs in at the same time, owner remains
 unchanged; when user logs out, owner is reverted to root.