consolekit and user groups

[Scott James Remnant]

On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 07:37 -0800, Yan Seiner wrote:

> > Should I stand up, and log out, the ACL will be removed and I will
> > instantly lose access to that drive.  I can't ssh in later, or sit in
> > another seat, and get access again.
> >   
> This sounds like exactly what I am trying to do!
> 
> So set you
> 
> setfacl /dev/cdrom
> 
> at login (I'm thinking via gdm PreSession) and then when you log out it 
> automagically goes away?  Or do I have to do setfcl again to remove the acl?
> 
> That sounds a lot simpler than consoleKit!   Yippeee!  :-)
> 
Actually, the above is automatically managed for me.  HAL sets ACLs on
new devices based on PolicyKit authorisations, which include a
ConsoleKit "at the same seat" test.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
scott at canonical.com
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