Re: sound executables permissions
On Tue, 28 Jan 1997 15:07:48 -0300 =?iso-8859-1?Q?Nicol=E1s_Lichtmaier
?= (nick@Feedback.com.ar) wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jan 1997, Philippe Troin wrote:
>
> > I said I knew this was a security problem. But some other devices like
> > the floppy drive (floppy group), or the raw cdrom access (to play audio
> > CDs) could also benefit from it. The idea behind this is to allow
> > access to some devices from the console and forbid accidental
> > manipulations when not logged on the console (or whatever device/tty
> > combination). Unfortunately, the Unix security scheme doesn't leave
> > give us a good solution to this problem. Any other ideas here ?
>
> The CD-player or the wavs-player could be stgid audio, have a list of
> users who can use them / check if it's runninf on the console, and have
> some controls about what the user can do.
But this means that every audio (and floppy... etc...) program has to be modified to check for this... Can be a hassle.
I'd like to see a security system transparent for the program and the user.
Phil.
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