Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 21:16:06 -0800 From: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, Soeren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /dev/acd*t* no longer available in -current? Message-ID: <20021116051606.GB16666@HAL9000.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1021115112338.10878E-100000@fledge.watson.org> References: <20021115091313.GK76728@starjuice.net> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1021115112338.10878E-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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Thus spake Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>: > So one thing we could start doing is have sysinstall's adduser stuff offer > to place new users in the operator group, and set up the default > permissions on removable devices such that the operator group has > read/write access to them (or even just read-access). This would be > logically equivilent to placing users in an admin group at instlal on > Windows or Mac OS X. Operator access connotes the ability to shut down > the system in FreeBSD, as well as the ability to dump file systems, etc. > Another possibility would be to evolve our notion of console user based on > fbtab some for workstation configurations. I think putting new users in the operator group, even as a default-off option, is more liberal than necessary. Using fbtab to allow access to removable and audio devices seems like the right thing to do. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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