The default /etc/security/console.perms file that comes with the latest pam has some inconsistancies: 1) the <v4l> class is incomplete (doesn't have the /dev/v4l directory) 2) the reset perms for the <v4l> class set the group to sys (should be video?) 3) there is no cdwriter group in baselayout so it complains on the <burner> class I am going to attach a patch for the first two issues. The third one needs some consderation (I don't know whether the fix should be in pam or baselayout). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Created attachment 10093 [details, diff] the patch described in the ebuild
We have a cdrw group ...
Completely blanked on that. I'll draw up another patch that takes that into account. Thank you!
*** Bug 19584 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Shouldn't this: +<console> 0600 <v4l> 0600 root.video Be this: +<console> 0660 <v4l> 0660 root.video This way members of the group video always have access to the devices.
as for the cdrw group - burner class ... who the hell thinks that EACH SCSI device has to be cdrw??? I have a SCSI film scanner and I am really not able to stick a CD into it ... p.s. sorry for not being polite enough for a bugreport, but I was not aware of the existence of this file before and I spent quite a time by examining why the scanning software does not work when it always worked before, so I am quite angry ... :-(
In order to access my usb scanner in sane as a user I followed the instruction of this document: http://www.gentoo.de/doc/de/devfs-guide.xml and found out that this line: <usb>=/dev/usb/dabusb* /dev/usb/mdc800* /dev/usb/rio500 /dev/ttyUSB* \ /proc/usb/[0-9][0-9][0-9]/[0-9][0-9][0-9] is not appropiate. The second line should be /proc/bus/usb/[0-9][0-9][0-9]/[0-9][0-9][0-9] since there is no /proc/usb directory. After this small edit permissions are changed successfully to the 'scanner' group after login.
pam_console is going away *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 31877 ***
