Re: Thanks for a smooth 2.6 to 2.8 transistion

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

On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 08:20:55PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 04:47:13PM -0800, Ryan Lovett wrote:
> 
>  > Is there a PAM module you have in mind which could perform such a trick?
> 
>  pam_group?
> 
>  Something like:
> 
>  *; :0; *; *; plugdev
> 
>  (or something along those lines, I'm going by hearth)
> 
>  (do read the docs regarding the (lack of) security of this module)


Just to followup, the following seems to work fine:

  gdm;:0;*;Al0000-2400;plugdev

with

  auth    optional        pam_group.so

in /etc/pam.d/gdm. I'm also going to investigate using pam_group instead
of pam_devperm for sound, video, etc.

Thanks for the suggestions everyone,
Ryan