Re: KDE 3.1.1: audio group, pam.d?

[Albert Schueller <schuelaw@whitman.edu>]

Quoting Oswald Buddenhagen: 
> that's a bug in PAM i reported almost two years ago (and posted a
> (partial?) patch, even). i didn't look recently, but last time i checked
> they still have not reacted. :(

The more I think about it, the less enamoured I am with Debian's system
of allocating permissions anyway.  I noticed this morning that in order
to grant permission to my users to use the cdrom device I had two
choices:

	1) grant them membership to the "disk" group, clearly a bad idea
	2) change the group on /dev/hdc to "audio".

I'm not entirely satisfied with either approach.  Redhat has a
device-by-device permission allocation system, which gives a much finer
level of control.  Is there a similar scheme in Debian that I just
haven't discovered yet?

(I realize this is OT, feel free to respond via email)

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