Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Jan 2002 17:34:19 -0500 | From | "Eric S. Raymond" <> | Subject | Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems? |
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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>: > > But you're thinking like a developer, not a user. The right question > > is which approach requires the lowest level of *user* privilege to get > > the job done. Comparing world-readable /proc files versus a setuid app, > > the answer is obvious. This sort of thing is exactly what /proc is *for*. > > Both require the same level of user privilege. > > cat /proc/wasteofmemory/dmi | dmidecoder > v > /sbin/dmidump | dmidecoder
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. -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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