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Re: KDE 3.1.1: audio group, pam.d?



On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 10:44:52AM -0800, Albert Schueller wrote:
> Quoting Oswald Buddenhagen: 
> > that's a bug in PAM i reported almost two years ago (and posted a
> > (partial?) patch, even). i didn't look recently, but last time i checked
> > they still have not reacted. :(
> 
> The more I think about it, the less enamoured I am with Debian's system
> of allocating permissions anyway.  I noticed this morning that in order
> to grant permission to my users to use the cdrom device I had two
> choices:
> 
> 	1) grant them membership to the "disk" group, clearly a bad idea
> 	2) change the group on /dev/hdc to "audio".

Use group cdrom.  Hopefully next Debian release will chgrp the cdrom/rw
devices automaticly during installation.

Achim
> 
> I'm not entirely satisfied with either approach.  Redhat has a
> device-by-device permission allocation system, which gives a much finer
> level of control.  Is there a similar scheme in Debian that I just
> haven't discovered yet?
> 
> (I realize this is OT, feel free to respond via email)
> 
> A



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