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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Bob Smith <bsmith@linuxtoys.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 001/001] CHAR DRIVERS: a simple device to give daemons a /sys-like interface
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 12:51:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130807195151.GA4121@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5202A284.7010106@linuxtoys.org>

On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 12:39:48PM -0700, Bob Smith wrote:
> Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >>  *    sudo chmod 666 /dev/proxyout /dev/proxyctrl
> >That's mighty permissive :(
> For a demo it might be OK.

You ignored my mknod comment.

Also, no, setting the permissions like this is not ok for a real system,
what is going to be in charge of setting the permissions on these random
device nodes?

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-07 19:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <51FC5478.40500@linuxtoys.org>
2013-08-03  1:19 ` [PATCH 001/001] CHAR DRIVERS: a simple device to give daemons a /sys-like interface Bob Smith
2013-08-03  1:56   ` Joe Perches
2013-08-03  2:35   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-03 18:12     ` Bob Smith
2013-08-03 22:38   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-04 21:54     ` Bob Smith
2013-08-04 23:19       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-05 23:46         ` Bob Smith
2013-08-06  9:46           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-07 19:02             ` Bob Smith
2013-08-07 19:27               ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-07 19:39                 ` Bob Smith
2013-08-07 19:51                   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2013-08-07 19:54                   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-07 21:04                     ` Bob Smith
2013-08-07 21:33                       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-08 21:23                         ` Bob Smith
2013-08-09 21:52                           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-09 22:20                             ` Bob Smith
2013-08-09 22:14                         ` Bob Smith
2013-08-09 23:01                           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-09 23:35                             ` Bob Smith
2013-08-09 23:46                               ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-10 20:08                             ` Bob Smith
2013-08-10 20:29                               ` richard -rw- weinberger
2013-08-10 20:49                                 ` Bob Smith
2013-08-10 21:43                               ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-08-10 22:07                                 ` Bob Smith
2013-08-13 20:15                                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-08-07 21:28                     ` Bob Smith
2013-08-07 21:40                       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-07 21:53                         ` Bob Smith
2013-08-09 21:54                           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-09 22:51                             ` Bob Smith
2013-08-09 23:04                               ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-07 21:38             ` Bob Smith

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