Re: Devices and permissions

[Alain PORTAL <aportal univ-montp2 fr>]

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Le mercredi 20 Octobre 2004 14:16, Matias Féliciano a écrit :

> > So, using /etc/security/console.perms seems the best way.
> > Here is my purposal:
> >
> > # device classes
> > <serialport>=/dev/ttyS[0-9]
> > <paralellport>=/dev/parport[0-7]
> >
> > # permission definitions
> > <console>  0600 <serialport>      0660 root.uucp
> > <console>  0600 <paralellport>    0660 root.lp
> >
> > Does it seem right for you?
> >
> > How can I add/remove these lines via rpm (un)installation?
>
> With Perl, sed ...

Hhmm, not really my cup of tea :-)

> Personally, I don't like that third party package touch security files.
> Put some instructions in README or INSTALL file and let the
> administrator do his job :-)

Problem is: is "administrator" reading README or INSTALL files provided by a 
rpm package?

First, could you confirm that lines I want to put in the file are right?

I manually edit the file to try, logout, and try login but it fails.
I am unable to login as a normal user (bigs problems with X), only login as 
root.

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