"console" virtual group for desktop users

[Bill Nottingham]

Matthew Mastracci (matt at aclaro.com) said: 
> I originally posted this message to Redhat's pam-list, but I didn't
> receive any responses.  I'm not certain if these lists are the best
> place for it, but I can see possible overlap with some of the Project
> Utopia and general Linux Hotplug work and thought it could provoke some
> useful discussion here.  
> 
> The summary of the message is the replacement of the "console.perms"
> style permissions with a "console" group, whose members would be
> provided by an nsswitch library.  These members would dynamically update
> as users create/kill X sessions, allowing two locally logged in users
> with different X sessions to share local devices (ie: /dev/dsp,
> /dev/dvd, etc.)

Temporary membersip in a group == permanent membership in a group.
So it's not really a good idea by itself without other restrictions.

Bill