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Re: sound executables permissions



On Mon, 27 Jan 1997, Philippe Troin wrote:

> Not at all... /etc/group is consulted during the login (with initgroups() if I remember correctly)  to initialize the supplemental group list.
> We should just add some terminal-based supplemental groups when calling this function, and not touch the /etc/group file.
> If I've got time, I'll try to hack this in /bin/login and in xdm.
> But I've already plenty of stuff to do :-(

I think that only allowed users (included in `audio' group) should be
given access to the audio. Other users should not get access to audio even
if they are at the console (what if they leave a process recording
everything when they leave?)

Nicolás Lichtmaier.-
nick@feedback.com.ar



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