On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 08:11:12AM +, Jim Breton wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 11:56:03PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > pam_group is only relativly secure if your system is installed and
> > configured a certain way:
>
> Yup, some of that is mentioned in the documentation... nevertheless,
On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 08:11:12AM +, Jim Breton wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 11:56:03PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > pam_group is only relativly secure if your system is installed and
> > configured a certain way:
>
> Yup, some of that is mentioned in the documentation... nevertheless,
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Jim Breton wrote:
> And the file only exists while gpm is running (it's removed when you
> stop gpm) so I am guessing it is the socket through which clients read
> mouse data.
Isn't that /dev/gpmdata?
--
Zak Kipling, Girton College, Cambridge.
"As long as the superstition
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Jim Breton wrote:
> And the file only exists while gpm is running (it's removed when you
> stop gpm) so I am guessing it is the socket through which clients read
> mouse data.
Isn't that /dev/gpmdata?
--
Zak Kipling, Girton College, Cambridge.
"As long as the superstition
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 11:56:03PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> pam_group is only relativly secure if your system is installed and
> configured a certain way:
Yup, some of that is mentioned in the documentation... nevertheless, it
would be a big improvement over making the socket world-writable.
On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 06:53:51AM +, Jim Breton wrote:
> Do we have any plans in the works for a fix similar to what Red Hat are
> doing?
>
> Running potato here, and the permissions on /dev/gpmctl are indeed 777.
>
> I am thinking about changing the group ownership on mine to "mouse"
> (cre
I was just about to send this to bugs with a severity of "wishlist" but
then I figured maybe I'd throw it out here first.
Package: login
Version: 19990827-20
Severity: wishlist
Hello. I was reading the login.defs man page and noted this:
CONSOLE /etc/consoles
o
Do we have any plans in the works for a fix similar to what Red Hat are
doing?
Running potato here, and the permissions on /dev/gpmctl are indeed 777.
I am thinking about changing the group ownership on mine to "mouse"
(creating that group) and using the /etc/security/group.conf mechanism
to put
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 11:56:03PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> pam_group is only relativly secure if your system is installed and
> configured a certain way:
Yup, some of that is mentioned in the documentation... nevertheless, it
would be a big improvement over making the socket world-writable.
On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 06:53:51AM +, Jim Breton wrote:
> Do we have any plans in the works for a fix similar to what Red Hat are
> doing?
>
> Running potato here, and the permissions on /dev/gpmctl are indeed 777.
>
> I am thinking about changing the group ownership on mine to "mouse"
> (cr
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