Re: [PATCH 001/001] CHAR DRIVERS: a simple device to give daemons a /sys-like interface

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-07T19:50:31Z

On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 12:39:48PM -0700, Bob Smith wrote:
> Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >> * sudo chmod 666 /dev/proxyout /dev/proxyctrl
> >That's mighty permissive :(
> For a demo it might be OK.

You ignored my mknod comment.

Also, no, setting the permissions like this is not ok for a real system,
what is going to be in charge of setting the permissions on these random
device nodes?

greg k-h