From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: initramfs programs (was [RFC] klibc requirements)
Date: 9 Jan 2002 15:28:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a1ijm9$hcl$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020109154742.B28755@thyrsus.com> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201092238100.29914-100000@sphinx.mythic-beasts.com> <20020109174637.A1742@thyrsus.com>
Followup to: <20020109174637.A1742@thyrsus.com>
By author: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Matthew Kirkwood <matthew@hairy.beasts.org>:
> > > The underlying problem is that dmidecode needs access to kmem, and I
> > > can't assume that the person running my configurator will be root.
> >
> > But you can "su -c" (also sudo, I suppose). If that person
> > doesn't have root, then building a kernel isn't going to do
> > them much good.
>
> We've been over this already. No, the configurator user should *not* have
> to su at any point before actual kernel installation. Bad practice,
> no doughnut.
>
We have also been over the fact that dmidecode, if written
appropriately, could be setuid, or call a "dmicat" setuid program.
This is a dmidecode implementation detail.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-09 23:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-09 20:05 initramfs programs (was [RFC] klibc requirements) Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-09 20:43 ` Doug McNaught
2002-01-09 20:44 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-09 21:01 ` Doug McNaught
2002-01-09 22:07 ` Andreas Ferber
2002-01-09 21:56 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-09 23:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-09 23:30 ` Andreas Ferber
2002-01-12 5:31 ` Pavel Machek
2002-01-09 20:55 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-01-09 20:47 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-09 22:41 ` Matthew Kirkwood
2002-01-09 22:46 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-09 23:28 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2002-01-10 0:21 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-10 11:21 ` Dave Jones
2002-01-09 23:29 ` Matthew Kirkwood
2002-01-09 23:29 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-09 23:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-10 10:35 ` Matthew Kirkwood
2002-01-12 5:36 ` Pavel Machek
2002-01-12 18:11 ` Oliver Xymoron
[not found] <fa.gs2ktfv.1r00h12@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.kj79fuv.1angmqd@ifi.uio.no>
2002-01-10 17:13 ` Giacomo Catenazzi
2002-01-10 17:28 ` Dave Jones
2002-01-10 17:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-10 17:43 ` Dave Jones
2002-01-10 17:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-10 17:47 ` Dave Jones
2002-01-10 17:37 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-10 17:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] <fa.d7rnnnv.1l1gnri@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.p5gg3pv.1iiscrg@ifi.uio.no>
2002-01-10 11:22 ` Giacomo Catenazzi
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-09 20:25 Torrey Hoffman
2002-01-10 0:02 ` Tom Rini
2002-01-09 17:54 Torrey Hoffman
2002-01-09 18:06 ` Tom Rini
2002-01-09 18:28 ` Greg KH
2002-01-09 18:49 ` Tom Rini
2002-01-08 19:24 [RFC] klibc requirements Greg KH
2002-01-09 4:23 ` Felix von Leitner
2002-01-09 4:34 ` initramfs programs (was [RFC] klibc requirements) Greg KH
2002-01-09 6:10 ` Greg KH
2002-01-09 7:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-09 9:33 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-01-09 10:00 ` Erik Andersen
2002-01-09 10:38 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-01-09 15:56 ` Pavel Machek
2002-01-09 16:04 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-01-09 16:26 ` Greg KH
2002-01-09 16:29 ` Pavel Machek
2002-01-09 16:48 ` Andreas Ferber
2002-01-09 21:15 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2002-01-09 21:34 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-01-09 21:40 ` Greg KH
2002-01-09 21:55 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-01-09 22:15 ` Andreas Ferber
2002-01-10 0:25 ` Tom Rini
2002-01-10 0:38 ` Andreas Ferber
2002-01-10 2:42 ` Tom Rini
2002-01-10 14:09 ` Rob Landley
2002-01-10 22:24 ` Tom Rini
2002-01-11 0:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-09 22:12 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
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