On Tue, 07 Dec 1999 13:05:39 -0500 
 Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us> wrote:

 > while we're hacking on this, something akin to the sunos fbtab or
 > solaris logindevperm (i.e., "these other devices (floppy, cd, audio,
 > frame buffer, mouse, ...) also temporarily belong to whoever's
 > currently using using this login "channel") would also be useful in
 > many environments.

We already have that!  man ttyaction

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>