Can remote users control the scanner(s) too?

Nathaniel McCallum npmccallum at canonical.com
Wed Sep 29 03:28:01 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 14:56 -0500, J.B. Nicholson-Owens wrote:
> Would it be wise or possible to only add the user at the console to the scanner 
> group when they login (then remove that user from the scanner group when they 
> logout)?

We've actually had long talks about priviledge seperation between local
and remote users.  Most of this will depend on a revoke() system call
which is not in the kernel yet (I believe).  Its something that Linux
should take advantage of when the correct implimentation shows itself.

Nathaniel





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