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From: William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com>
To: Christopher Brannon <chris@the-brannons.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, kirk@braille.uwo.ca, speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: World writable speakup files in Linux next
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 16:28:34 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101211222834.GA27436@linux1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lj3wufx7.fsf@the-brannons.com>

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 10:02:12PM +0000, Christopher Brannon wrote:
> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes:
> 
> > As I don't want to just blindly remove the world writable permissions on
> 
> Hah, hah!  This is very punny, though I'm certain that you didn't intend
> to make a pun.  (Highlighting *blindly*).
> 
> > all of these files, could someone go through and verify which ones
> > should and should not be world writable?
> 
> Personally, I'd say ditch the world-readable bit.  We should deal with
> this in terms of groups.  The only user who should really be able to
> write to these files is the one sitting at the console.

Do we know for sure that udev can manipulate the group ownership of
files in the /sys hierarchy? I'll be the first to admit that I have only
briefly looked at udev, but I don't think we should remove the world
writable bit until we know for sure whether udev can do anything with
the /sys hierarchy.

Thanks,

William



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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20101210190047.GA19219@kroah.com>
 ` William Hubbs
   ` Frost
 ` Christopher Brannon
   ` William Hubbs [this message]
     ` Samuel Thibault
     [not found]       ` <20101212182940.GB16883@kroah.com>
         ` Kirk Reiser
           ` Samuel Thibault
             ` Kirk Reiser
               ` Samuel Thibault
               ` acollins
                 ` Samuel Thibault
             ` Frost
               ` Samuel Thibault
                 ` Kitty Litter
                   ` Samuel Thibault
                 ` Frost
                   ` bardiazakeri
                     ` Frost
                       ` bardiazakeri
                         ` Littlefield, Tyler
                           ` bardiazakeri
                             ` Kerry Hoath
                               ` Littlefield, Tyler
                                 ` Arch Linux was: " Øyvind Lode
                           ` bardiazakeri
                           ` speakup and ubuntu, was: " Gregory Nowak
                             ` Littlefield, Tyler
                   ` Samuel Thibault
                   ` Michael Whapples
                     ` Samuel Thibault
                       ` Frost
               ` bardiazakeri

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