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SubjectRe: devfs again, (was RE: USB device allocation)
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Stephen Frost <sfrost@ns.snowman.net> said:
> On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Shawn Leas wrote:
> > From: Horst von Brand [mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl]

> > >> through sudo to manage floppies.

[...]

> > >Also has the quite interesting side effect that "sudo mcopy
> > >/etc/shadow a:" does work fine.

> > I don't think we want to complain that devfs is at fault for the fact that
> > sudo access can be dangerous.

> So now the kludge of using sudo doesn't work, or at least is less
> secure than being able to chown/chmod /dev/fd0... So out goes that idea.

The finer point being that this kind of kludges have nonobvious
ramifications.
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Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl
Casilla 9G, Viña del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616

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