H. Peter Anvin 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().
Actually, PAM already supports that.
However, the approach allows any console user to create a setgid shell or leave
a process running with console group access, which they can [ab]use when
logging in remotely.
> Device nodes really scream for ACLs, though.
Agreed.
- Ruud de Rooij.
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