From: Ben Ford <ben@kalifornia.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Who wants to test cracklinux??
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 15:34:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44305193.5080408@kalifornia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060328224929.GC5760@elf.ucw.cz>
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Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>> I've written a small kernel module & shared object for kernel 2.6 to
>> enable the following for normal users:
>>
>> - inb()/outb()... via a wrapper function
> ioperm() does that already, no? You mean, you enable it for non-root,
> too? That's security hole.
My OS development classes have a lab of machines that run entirely as
root just for these reasons. I think it's valid to allow these
operations as non-root in certain situations. It is better than
running *everything* as root, no?
- -b
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-02 22:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-28 20:12 Who wants to test cracklinux?? Marko
2006-03-28 22:01 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-03-28 22:49 ` Pavel Machek
2006-03-28 23:49 ` Måns Rullgård
2006-03-29 12:02 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-29 12:32 ` Marko Euth
2006-04-02 22:34 ` Ben Ford [this message]
2006-04-02 22:39 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-04-02 23:07 ` Marko Euth
2006-04-02 23:16 ` Alan Cox
2006-04-03 9:11 ` Jan Engelhardt
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