Re: sound executables permissions

[Joey Hess <joey@kite.ml.org>]

> But what would IMHO be a better thing would be to add a person to the
> audio group when it logs on the console or with xdm. There should be a
> /etc/logingroups file or whatever, which should say what supplementary
> groups one should get when logged on a device. 
> 
> I know that Sun an HP use a /etc/logindevperm which chowns some devices
> depending on which terminal was used for login, but I don't like this
> because in Linux, several persons can be logged on the console at the
> same time. 
> 
> But this is more ``secure'' than my proposed approach (because once you
> get the supplemental group, you can create a setgid shell to keep this
> group). 
> 
> What do you think about implementing this in Debian ?

I like it. Would /etc/group just be edited when the person logs in, to
change the groups they are a member of?

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