From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Nottingham Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:22:29 +0000 Subject: Re: Add user ACLs for /dev/rfkill Message-Id: <20090807142229.GE8446@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> List-Id: References: <4A72CE4E.3030205@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4A72CE4E.3030205@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org Kay Sievers (kay.sievers@vrfy.org) said: > On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 14:27, Harald Hoyer wrote: > > Kay? > > What's the use case and unprivileged user will need this? It's more > that NetworkManager and such will interact with that, right? The bluetooth radio itself is not necessarily a NM-managed object; it's managed by gnome-bluetooth or similar stacks. My concern about making it user accesible is it makes it harder for an administrator to lock down the device if the user can then just unlock it. But perhaps that's better done at the modprobe level (not that that works sanely now.) Bill