Bill Layer <wlayer at attbroadband.com> wrote: > > Yeah, and while we're at it, can someone please explain the Mystery of the > Changing Permissions in the /dev/ tree of RedHat based systems? Many perms > seem to change based on who is logged in on some console / terminal.. like > ownership of dsp, mixer and certain disk devices. Yeah, RedHat uses some of the features of PAM to change permissions, depending on where you logged in from. When you're at the console, you can get permission to things like /dev/dsp, the floppy, CD-ROM, etc. IMO, it's better than just using groups to keep track of things, as you could log into a system remotely and start playing (or recording!) sound, even though someone else is at the console. I think it's handled by files in /etc/security/ -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Double your drive space - / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ delete Windows! \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020205/d49d19c8/attachment.pgp