Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Jan 1998 11:48:11 -0600 (CST) | From | "Patrick St. Jean" <> | Subject | Re: PROPOSAL: /proc/dev (new idea) |
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On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, linux kernel account wrote: > No one has advocated having the KERNEL update config files.. Thats upto a > userspace util..
I've already got one spec'd out... some of it's pseudocode, some's not... The pseudocode is where the kernel interface comes in...
> A reasonable default is root.root mode 700... Although the most > conserviatve of all possible modes, it would still allow a root shell to > work just fine.
IMHO that's a great default.
I was thinking about the whole modules debacle... It seems to me that requiring a module that MAY get loaded at some point in time to register itself might be a way to go... It's ugly, but... Maybe something like a regmod addition to the ins/ls/rmmod suite?
Pat
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