Description of problem: If you have e.g. a laptop with an IrDA (infrared) interface and modprobe in a driver and then the TTY IrDA emulator, the resulting terminal connections in /dev/ircomm0, /dev/ircomm1 ... etc are not accessible by the console user. These are analogous to USB sticks, memory cards etc and are used for e.g. accessing mobile phones. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pam-0.99.3.0-2 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. modprobe an IrDA driver (I use smsc-ircc2) 2. modprobe ircomm-tty 3. Resulting devices are not accessible by the cosole user Actual results: Not accessible by console user. Expected results: Should be accessible by console user. Additional info: I think adding these entries in the right places to /etc/security/console.perms.d/50-default.perms should suffice: <ircomm>=/dev/ircomm* <console> 0600 <ircomm> 0600 root I marked the severity as high since there are many people that want to use their mobile phones over IrDA.
Ping, anybody out there?
This was fixed in pam-0.99.4.0-fc5.4 - in FC5 updates.