From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefan Richter Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 07:07:58 +0000 Subject: Re: Hotplug, 1394, and security Message-Id: <438809CE.4070308@s5r6.in-berlin.de> List-Id: References: <20051125213209.GZ20781@conscoop.ottawa.on.ca> In-Reply-To: <20051125213209.GZ20781@conscoop.ottawa.on.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org Kurt Konolige wrote: > Will libraw1394 access be > restricted to root, as a default policy? There are user programs that > need access to libraw read/write, at least for DCAM-compliant devices. In my opinion, the kernel should not enforce one or the other policy. As long as a policy (e.g. security policy) can be controlled in userspace, control it in userspace. -- Stefan Richter -===-=-=-= =-= =-=- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel