On 26-05-2020 03:22, terryc wrote:
> On Mon, 25 May 2020 13:31:49 +0000
> dal <dal@???> wrote:
>
>> Dear list,
>>
>> A round of searching and reading did not give me any usable
>> explanation of Subj on Devuan.
>>
>> More specifically, static assignment of users to the "audio"/"video"
>> groups is not applicable (on shared, remotely accessible computers).
>>
>> It looks like ConsoleKit used to be the answer in Debian,
>> but in my testing on Beowulf the consolekit package is not compatible
>> with any desktop environment besides xfce.
>>
>> Is this an inherent limitation somewhere, a packaging bug
>> or otherwise a misunderstanding on my part?
>>
>> Regards,
>> /D
>
> My understanding is that it is a inherent limitation of *nix.
> Based on the permissions of a user are defined on login and can
> not be changed unless the use logs in again in after they gain the
> desired permission(s) and thus access to devices and which they can
> only do if they are already defined as a user on that particular system.
>
> Depending on your particular needs, the simple way around this is to
> define each user on all systems and the user can then ssh, or
> whatever and run the application. As our SOHO is small, this is what
> we do, although I'm the only one sometimes inclined to ssh;aplay
> test.wav or such to determine a user problem.
>
>
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You probably will need a LDAP based solution for this. In mixed
environments you could use Samba 4 as a PDC and LDAP provider.

It is still on my (long) todo list.


Grtz

Nick