Re: Thanks for a smooth 2.6 to 2.8 transistion

[Ryan Lovett <ryan@OCF.Berkeley.EDU>]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 08:49:58PM +0000, Robert McQueen wrote:
> Such a system with hundreds of users could either be a server, in which 
> case the users are unlikely to be plugging in arbitrary devices, and you 
> probably won't be running udev, hal, gvm, pmount & friends on it. Or it 
> could be a workstation, in which case you only want the user who is 
> sitting at it and logged in to be able to mount the devices or removable 
> media which are presumably theirs, so a pam module to add them to the 
> group at login, and remove them from it at log out, seems reasonable. 
> Access to the sound and video hardware (for DRI) could usefully be 
> controlled in a similar way.


We manage sound and video devices on our workstations with libpam-devperm,
however, the sound and video devices do not change, whereas the devices
for pluggable USB drives do. (so we'd have to use your group management
trick)

Is there a PAM module you have in mind which could perform such a trick?

Ryan