Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3506 mails)

[Anders Johansson <ajohansson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 05 September 2006 12:17, Frank Steiner wrote:
> Jan Engelhardt wrote
>
> >> No one??? Looks like I'm not supposed to work with SuSE anymore, because
> >> I will never run Gnome or KDE.
> >
> > I am currently cooking up a solution because Knoppix suffers from the
> > same problem :p  Already works with "devices" (read: USB sticks), but I
> > still have to add CDROM support (which are always "plugged in")
>
> One more info that might be interesting for you, too. We figured our that
> the permission problem only shows up when the user logs via the text
> console (and uses startx afterwards). If you login via kdm/gdm (but still
> do *not* use KDE or Gnome but e.g. ctwm), ivman can mount a CD for the
> user.
>
> Maybe it's due to some pam stuff. I remember some permissions were set
> when you log in via kdm in 9.2, but I'm not sure what happens exactly.
> I will let you know if I find out more.

Probably it's related to pam_resmgr, which is used by the display managers but 
not on console login (for safety reasons, since if there is a problem with 
resmgr, you could be locked out even as root)
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