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From: David Newall <david@davidnewall.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] [RFC] Simple tamper-proof device filesystem.
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 22:01:20 +1030
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Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> David Newall wrote:
>   
>> Tetsuo Handa wrote:
>>     
>>>  /dev needs to be writable, but this means that files on /dev might be
>>>  tampered with.
>>>       
>> I infer that you mean /dev needs to be writable by anyone, not by just 
>> its owner or owner and group (conventionally root/root.)  This goes 
>> against conventional wisdom, which is that /dev must be writable only by 
>> the administrator.  Why do you say otherwise?
>>     
> I didn't mean that "/dev is writable by everybody".
>   

Glad to hear it! :)

> I meant that "/dev must be mounted for read-write mode"
>   

Again, why?