Okay, thanks. I did notice that, but since we have some machines which are used by lots of people I had hoped for a way to restrict usage to whomever happens to be at the console.
Anyhow. Thanks again, at least I'm not missing something. Cheers, -m On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 09:35:51PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 02/01/02 Michael Jinks did speaketh: > > > New to Debian, I probably just need to RTFM somewhere, please point me to > > it if you know... > > > > I'm used to Red Hat's trick of chown'ing certain /dev files, notable > > /dev/dsp and the CDROM devices, so that the user at the console can use > > them. Is there a "Debian way" to pull off the same functionality? > > Hi Michael. > > The Debian policy for this is to have the device files belonging to > certain groups, with read and write permission enabled for group > ownership. That way, anyone you would like to be able to access > certain services, you simply add them to the appropriate group. > > ie. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] msoulier]$ ls -l /dev/dsp > crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 Nov 30 2000 /dev/dsp > > If you're not root, and you're not in the audio group, you can't > access the soundcard. Luckily, I added myself to the audio group with > adduser. > > Note that you must either newgrp, or logout and back in, for the group > change to fully take effect. > > Mike > > -- > Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 > "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount > of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix
