Re: Users and Groups

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:

If you log in or su to root, the black magic permission changing where
the system guesses that a user touching the keyboard should own nearby
devices doesn't matter anyway.

What guessing? Why should it not matter who is logged into the local
console? Or are you arguing that on a normal desktop system, a
remote user should have access to things like sound, and the
built-in video?

I'm arguing that whether you have access to those devices should depend on who you are, not where you are, just like every other unix operation checks pre-established settings for user and group values against pre-established settings on every file and device when opening them. It shouldn't be determined by whether you are able to touch a certain keyboard.

(On a server, you would probably not have sounds,
and maybe not even a video card.)

Or a keyboard.


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