On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 13:43 +0000, Jack Tanner wrote: > Bill Nottingham <notting <at> redhat.com> writes: > > > > > I think it's time to retire pam_console from the default configuration. > > > > For device permissions, we already have the hal/consolekit support which > > should be use. <snip> > Bottom line: before you blow away pam_console, please spend some time doing > education (e.g., documenting) and outreach (e.g., responding on fedoraforum) > about the new proper way of doing things that accommodates 80% of the existing > use cases. If you want to be thorough about it, consider the software (like mpd) > in a few prominent third-party repos, too. The problem is that a daemon shouldn't be talking to what should be session devices. mpd won't work with PulseAudio, and it won't work with HAL/CK permissions. The maintainers would be better off adding hacks to set the permissions on the audio devices in the startup scripts. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
