53377 – nvidia permissions too restrictive

Bug 53377 - nvidia permissions too restrictive

Summary: nvidia permissions too restrictive

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 31877

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo X packagers

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Reported:	2004-06-08 22:52 UTC by John Nilsson
Modified:	2005-07-17 13:06 UTC (History)
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Description John Nilsson 2004-06-08 22:52:04 UTC

/etc/security/console.perms lists
<xconsole> 0600 <dri>        0600 root
this means that only the first user to login can use /dev/nvidia*

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.5336-r3
   sys-fs/udev-025-r1 RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="no"
   sys-libs/pam-0.77-r1
2. Login two users via gdm
3. As second user run glxgears
Actual Results:  
Error: Could not open /dev/nvidiactl because the permissions
are too resticitive.  Please see the FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
section of /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README for steps
to correct.

Comment 1 John Nilsson 2004-06-09 00:42:57 UTC

Seems that the correct fix is to remve all references to pam_console in /etc/pam.d/
it only breaks things and provides no real value.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 31877 ***