Re: [Cooker] Very strange permissions change on /dev/*
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. -- MandrakeSoft Inc http://www.chmouel.org --Chmouel
Re: [Cooker] Very strange permissions change on /dev/*
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/*
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.