Remeber when I ranted about RH 6.0...

[linuxguy at ici.net (Christoph)]

Oh,

a few weeks back I ranted a little about RH 6.0 and a goofy mechanism
for setting device permissions when people logged onto the system.

I did a little digging, and discovered the culprit is PAM (Pluggable
Authentication Modules).  There's a new rule added to /etc/pam.d/login
called /lib/security/pam_console.so.

This statement I believe calls the console-helper which in turn calls
the user-helper (the setuid program which fixes the perm's in /dev).

If you are like me, and don't want the login process monkeying around
with the permissions of files in /dev,
the simple fix ought to be to remove the line. I will experiment and
report back...



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