On 2/20/06, Bill Nottingham notting@redhat.com wrote:
Yes - basically, without finding a good, solid solution to device ownership (groups aren't it), having fast user switching on is very problematic.
Is it even possible to enumate the types problematic devices? Assuming we are talking about multiple users at the physical console.
hot-(un)pluggable devices that users have physical access certaintly share a common level of "ownership" complexity.
But internal non-hotpluggable devices would have different constraints would they not from an ownership pov?
And then of course there's crap thats in between.. items which are technically hot-pluggable but which because of the specific situation.. none of the console users can actually unplug as part of non-malicious usage. (but I guess the administrator could mark those devices in some way as special so they are treated as non-hotpluggable items)
-jef