From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri) Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:44:28 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] udev-acl: handle "dialout" devices Message-Id: <20110714164428.GA24843@bongo.bofh.it> List-Id: References: <1310646233-2113-1-git-send-email-linus.walleij@linaro.org> In-Reply-To: <1310646233-2113-1-git-send-email-linus.walleij@linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Jul 14, Linus Walleij 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