Messages in this thread | | | From | Shawn Leas <> | Subject | RE: PUBLIC CHALLENGE: (was RE: devfs again, (was RE: USB device a lloc ation) ) | Date | Thu, 7 Oct 1999 19:37:11 -0500 |
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From: Horst von Brand [mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl] Subject: Re: PUBLIC CHALLENGE: (was RE: devfs again, (was RE: USB device alloc ation) )
>BTW, >the entries there allow you to mount _iff_ you have permissions on the >devices themselves. The permission bits are the systems' last (only?) line >of defense against miscreants; permissions of devices are extremely >critical, much more so than even the most critical normal files. Fooling >around with this if there is no *extremely* good reason is out. Needless to >say, I've seen only rather weak reasons for some scheme like devfs.
So why not simply let the driver decide upon it's nodes' permissions?
>> The use of a config file to determine permissions/ownership is not foreign >> to the kernel or filesystems.
>Name one use of configuration files for local permissions/ownership on >Unix/Linux.
This is a straw man argument. You take an easy target, knock it down, and it really doesn't mean anything, but you claim victory. Shame.
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