On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 12:58:45PM +0200, Thomas Gebhardt wrote: > Hi, > > is there a safe way to supply the user who is sitting in front > of the console (logged in with xdm) with special permissions > (i.e., to access the floppy, /dev/audio and cdrom? > > Thanks for any hint! you can allow every user to use the /cdrom by a fstab like that: /dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0
for audio there is audio in /etc/group (here you must enter every user explicitly) On redhat the users who are physicaly logged in have special rights, it think they do it with pam somehow. > > Regards, Thomas Gebhardt > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Thomas Guettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.interface-business.de