logindevperm(5)

NAME
/etc/logindevperm - configuration file for pam_devperm.so

DESCRIPTION
/etc/logindevperm is an ASCII file which contains the rules for pam_devperm. There is one entry per line. Comments start with a # and extend to the end of the line. Blank lines or lines with only a comment are ignored. All other lines consist of three fields delimited by whitespace:

login device
    If a user signs onto the system on this device, the rule will be evaluated.

octal permission number
    The octal permission number to which the access rights of devices should be changed.

list of devices
    A ":"-delimited list of devices, which should be owned by the user who signs onto the sytem.

All device names are absolute paths. A path that ends in "/*" refers to all directory entries except "." and "..". The login device could be also the xdm display (like :0) or a "*" matching all devices.

If the tty the user does login matches a login device name, the permissions of the devices in the ":"-delimited list are set as specified in the second field, and their ownership is changed to that of the uid of the user.

All rules are tried one by one. Every match is evaluated.

EXAMPLE
# Give access to the CD-ROM and floppy devices.
# users in the correct group should be also able
# to write to the floppy. user needs to login with xdm/kdm
:0 0600 /dev/cdrom:/dev/cdrom1:/dev/cdrom2
:0 0660 /dev/fd0:/dev/fd1

FILES
/etc/logindevperm

SEE ALSO
login(1), pam(8)