Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:51:48 +1030 | | From | David Newall <> | | Subject | Re: [patch 1/2] [RFC] Simple tamper-proof device filesystem. | |
Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> /dev needs to be writable, but this means that files on /dev might be
> tampered with.
I infer that you mean /dev needs to be writable by anyone, not by just
its owner or owner and group (conventionally root/root.) This goes
against conventional wisdom, which is that /dev must be writable only by
the administrator. Why do you say otherwise?
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