Re: [Linuxconsole-dev] comments on multi-heading/console

[Steffen S. <s.s...@ph...>]

James Simmons wrote:

> > But, there are more (security and ease-of-use) issues involved as
> > I had to learn.
> 
> Such as ? Can you a list of things you discovered about multihead and
> secuirty and easy-of-use.
> 
> > Most important I found no (reasonably simple) way to establish
> > proper protection/virtualization without introducting another process
> > attribute, the workplace ID. This should be set by the initial
> > login process like the user-ID. With that you can easily virtualize
> > console specific /dev entries as neccessary.
> > However, I did not implement it as there are much more issues,
> > especially login,xdm etc. need to be made aware of this.
> 
> A interesting idea. Well will look at your ideas once ruby developement
> starts to kick into gear.

Quite a lot of them aren't ideas any longer, but are already tested
and working code. I will try to get a detailed documentation of my
console system done, post it on gg...@kl... and CC it to this
list.

			Steffen

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