Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch 1/2] [RFC] Simple tamper-proof device filesystem. | From | Tetsuo Handa <> | Date | Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:26:43 +0900 |
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Hello.
David Newall wrote: > 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? I didn't mean that "/dev is writable by everybody". I meant that "/dev must be mounted for read-write mode" (even if one wants to mount / for read-only mode).
Regards.
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