From: md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri)
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] udev-acl: handle "dialout" devices
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:44:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110714164428.GA24843@bongo.bofh.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1310646233-2113-1-git-send-email-linus.walleij@linaro.org>
On Jul 14, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:
> First I think that is only interesting to administrators of servers
> and largescale installations, is that right? It does only create
No, it is interesting to owners of any host connected to a modem which
can be compromised to allow execution of arbitrary code.
> obstacles for a home desktop user that s/he cannot use a modem
> with a default install of the OS.
So ask your favourite distribution to add by default to the dialout
group the user created at install time.
> So if it is an axiom that the default ACL rules are for servers,
Is it?
> tty[A-Z]*[0-9] and ircomm[0-9]* has nothing implicit in their
> drivers that tells you there is a modem on the other side.
Serial modems are like this, sometimes you cannot detect them.
--
ciao,
Marco
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-14 16:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-14 12:23 [PATCH] udev-acl: handle "dialout" devices Linus Walleij
2011-07-14 12:27 ` Kay Sievers
2011-07-14 16:42 ` Linus Walleij
2011-07-14 16:44 ` Marco d'Itri [this message]
2011-07-14 17:23 ` Linus Walleij
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