Messages in this thread | | | From | "Russ Steffen" <> | Date | Tue, 13 Oct 1998 23:14:04 -0700 | Subject | APM security question |
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I'm curious about a little segment of the APM code:
in do_ioctl:
if (!as->suser) return -EPERM;
This means that only root can issue to the ioctl to suspend the machine. That seems odd, since it overrides the file permissions on the character device. I don't like the idea that any APM-aware program has to be suid-root to suspend the machine, I'd rather be able to select who can and can't twiddle with APM suspend using the permissions on /dev/apm_bios. Russ -- ---------------------------------- Russ Steffen rsteffen@ia.net
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