Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems? | Date | Wed, 2 Jan 2002 23:09:49 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> What? Perhaps we're talking at cross-prorposes here. What I'm proposing > is that /proc/dmi should be a world-readable /proc file with the property > that > cat /proc/dmi > > gives you a DMI report. No root privileges or SUID programs needed. > Surely that would be an improvement on having to run Arjan's dmidecode as > root or requiring it to be SUID.
Of course it isnt. cat /proc/dmi executes kernel mode code which is totally priviledged. /sbin/dmidecode executes slightly priviledged code which will core dump not crash the box if it misparses the mapped table.
Also you might want to restrict or lie about DMI access. It may include serial numbers or other info considered private. - 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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