multi-user, hald, consolkit, oh my

[Dan Nicholson]

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 7:15 AM, Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:
> I'm working on multi-user setups.
>
> I'd like to be assign some resources - like a USB hub - to a seat and
> have hotplug work only for that seat.
>
> Currently, what happens is that a user plugs in a camera, and hal
> reports the event.  All of the concurrent gnome-volume-manager instances
> then try to grab that resource, and what results is a mess.
>
> consolekit has been suggested as a way to resolve this, but I can't
> figure out how to use it.
>
> So I figured I'd ask here, as hal is the lowest level of resource reporting.
>
> If I want to group some resources and only have those resources on
> behalf of a specific user, and not any other, is there a way to do that?

I don't know all the specifics of the ACL game, but you might try
looking at the access_control namespace:

http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/hal-spec/hal-spec.html#access-control

I think that a lot of the multiseat specifics might still be up in the
air, though.

--
Dan