Re: Suggested dual human/binary interface for proc/devfs

[Aaron Denney]

On  Thu, 13 Apr 2000 12:58:44 -0700, H. Peter Anvin <[e-mail]> wrote:
> On a similar note, I notice that recent versions of RedHat (via GNOME?)
> seems to magically change owners on a whole bunch of devices.  It seems
> to me that it would be a *much* cleaner solution would be to have a
> special group for the console owner, and when logging in the user add
> that group to his auxilliary group list via setgroups().

And then the user leaves a setgid console shell around and can play with
the devices when the next user logs in.

Changing the owrenrship eliminates that possibility, but we still need
a revoke().

-- 
Aaron Denney
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