Re: [PATCH 1/1] weston-launch: alter tty command line parameter semantics

2014-12-16 Thread Daniel Stone
Hi, On 8 December 2014 at 10:34, Damian, Alexandru alexandru.dam...@intel.com wrote: What annoyed me was weston silently ignoring the tty argument in certain conditions (you have to specify a new user argument while being root). Oh, I totally agree. We should have an error message stating

Re: [PATCH 1/1] weston-launch: alter tty command line parameter semantics

2014-12-16 Thread David Herrmann
Hi On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Daniel Stone dan...@fooishbar.org wrote: I reasoned that user access to the tty should be set up by the kernel policies, and we should not enforce the policy at weston level. If the system is configured in this way, then a user with enough permissions can

Re: [PATCH 1/1] weston-launch: alter tty command line parameter semantics

2014-12-08 Thread Daniel Stone
Hi, On Wednesday, October 2, 2013, Alex DAMIAN alexandru.dam...@intel.com wrote: Current behaviour of the tty parameter is to take effect only if there is a new user starting up. Since it is useful to start weston-launch with a command line specified tty, I'm changing the semantics of the

Re: [PATCH 1/1] weston-launch: alter tty command line parameter semantics

2014-12-08 Thread Damian, Alexandru
What annoyed me was weston silently ignoring the tty argument in certain conditions (you have to specify a new user argument while being root). I reasoned that user access to the tty should be set up by the kernel policies, and we should not enforce the policy at weston level. If the system is

[PATCH 1/1] weston-launch: alter tty command line parameter semantics

2013-10-02 Thread Alex DAMIAN
From: Alexandru DAMIAN alexandru.dam...@intel.com Current behaviour of the tty parameter is to take effect only if there is a new user starting up. Since it is useful to start weston-launch with a command line specified tty, I'm changing the semantics of the tty parameter: * the argument to the