https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465502 User jimc@math.ucla.edu added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465502#c5 --- Comment #5 from James Carter <jimc@math.ucla.edu> 2009-01-15 10:50:14 MST --- @sndirsch & @kasievers: For a machine with one user or maybe a family, groupwise permission management is fine. But we manage an instructional program with four computing labs and about 1000 students (different every 3 months); an enterprise deployment would have similar problems. Putting every student in group "video" would likely exceed a buffer limit -- better to make /dev/nvidia0 mode 666. But these are undergraduates with too much time on their hands; I'm sure you get my drift here. We really want the console user, specifically, to have access. Granting permission via an ACL would be nice, but I wanted to keep it simple, and in particular, if the machine crashed with the ACL row in place, it takes a little brainpower to get rid of it next time around, particularly if it's possible that unrelated ACL rows (like for a global notification daemon) might be configured. Hell will freeze over before the vendors make their drivers' licenses FOSS compliant. Maybe a compromise: they would register with sysfs only the most basic device characteristics, bypassing legally troublesome proprietary features. But to really solve the problem is kind of off topic for this thread and will take until OpenSuSE 12.3 at least. "You guys got me to pay for these fancy cards which work fine in Windows, and now you tell me Linux can't handle them? You're all fired! And take your Linux crap with you." Pointy-haired bosses do say things like that. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.