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On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 15:34 -0700, Ben Ford wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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? is there any difference? I mean... if you can outb you for all intents and purposes are root anyway ;) (like you can overwrite any memory in the system etc etc) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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