[argyllcms] Re: udev/ConsoleKit and device permissions under Linux
- From: Roland Mas <lolando@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:56:20 +0100
Frederic Crozat, 2010-01-26 16:10:02 +0100 :
[...]
>> otherwise. From my understanding, there are three possible scenarios:
>>
>> 1. Recent udev with udev-acl, ConsoleKit is also present.
>> 2. Recent udev, but no ConsoleKit.
>> 3. “Old” udev.
>
> If you don't have consolekit support, it usually mean you didn't built
> acl support in udev so udev-acl isn't installed on the system.
Not necessarily. You can have a recent udev (>= 146, which ships
udev-acl) without ConsoleKit. It's probably not frequent on default
installations (especially for desktop systems), so I agree it's a corner
case, but it can happen nevertheless.
> This is what I suggested to Graeme when we tried to get a "work
> everywhere" udev rules.
I understand the motivation. I'm just not sure the implementation
catches all cases :-)
Roland.
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Roland Mas
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