Re: group for mouse device ?

[Andreas Jellinghaus <aj@dungeon.inka.de>]

> I would be useful to have a mouse group and make the mouse device be in this 
> group, and add users to this group when they log into the console. That
> should fix the problem with svgalib programs. 

then you could also add these users to group mouse (if the can get
temporary a group mouse status, they can create something with setgid to
regain that group status anytime). if it is "only" svgalib programs, i
prefer to solve the problem im svgalib.

> However, most mouse devices are just normal serial devices, which tends to 
> complicate the matter - what would be responsible for setting the group of 
> the mouse device?

if svgalib handles also mouse, we don't have this problem.
if not, we could have a "mouseconfig" script :-)

andreas
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