From: Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add ACLs to /dev/sgX nodes for CD-ROM
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:33:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D7E436E.9070809@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1299402082-4796-1-git-send-email-arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Am 07.03.2011 16:23, schrieb Kay Sievers:
> On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 10:01, Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru> wrote:
>> Current wine is using /dev/sgX to access CD-ROM devices. Since
>> distributions switched to using ACL instead of group membership
>> to control device access, wine is not able to access them.
>>
>> Add ACL to device nodes that already get GROUP="cdrom".
>
> Applied.
>
> Thanks,
> Kay
Oh! You don't want to do this... Won't this allow ordinary users to flash a new
firmware, opening some security issues here?
Wasn't this, why cdrecord needed to be suid back in those days?
Wasn't this the reason for the filter for /dev/sr* in the kernel?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-14 16:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-06 9:01 [PATCH] add ACLs to /dev/sgX nodes for CD-ROM Andrey Borzenkov
2011-03-06 15:33 ` Kay Sievers
2011-03-06 17:21 ` Nicolas Pomarède
2011-03-07 15:23 ` Kay Sievers
2011-03-14 16:33 ` Harald Hoyer [this message]
2011-03-14 16:41 ` Kay Sievers
2011-03-14 23:20 ` Karl O. Pinc
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