devlabel and console.perms question

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Aug 5 17:41:47 UTC 2003


Michael K. Johnson (johnsonm at redhat.com) said: 
> On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 06:56:46PM +0200, Pavel Rozenboim wrote:
> > I'm using devlabel to automatically create device link for my digital
> > camera. 
> > If I connect the camera before login, I'm able to mount it. However, if I
> > connect the camera after login, only root can mount it. This behavior is
> > probably due to fact, that the device symlink is created only when I connect
> > the camera, and thus its ownership is not changed at login time. 
> > What is the best way to deal with this, besides add 'user' option to
> > /etc/fstab entry?
> 
> Hmm.  Sounds like hotplug should be calling pam_console_apply whenever
> it has finished plugging in a new device or devices?

updfstab calls pam_console_apply itself.

Bill





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