On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 20:48, Paul Howarth wrote: > When you say you "log in", is this directly on the system itself, or by ssh? > ssh. The machine only has a serial console. > The ownership of the device is set to be that of the person logged in > *on the console* because that is the person that will have physical > access to the device. There would be no point at all in setting up > permissions on a device-access basis because you might as well just make > the permissions 777 and let anyone write to it whenever they wanted, > which would be a security issue. > The fog is finally lifting! That makes perfect sense. > If you want to do CD-burning from a remote machine, you probably need to > "unmanage" the device (remove the pamconsole and managed terms from the > fstab entry) so that pam does not change the ownership of the device, > and write a custom udev rule/permissions entry to set the device up with > the permissions you want. > I'll have a go at that. > You can read about udev in Fedora at: > http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/udev/ > > Paul. Thanks for the help! Matt. -- Matthew Rex mrex@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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