Hi Herbert,
On 12 July 2017 at 15:43, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Hmm, one usage scenario for /dev/hwrng is to feed rngd which then
> feeds into /dev/random. In that case it may not be desirable to
> allow arbitrary access to hwrgn since it may cause the rate of
> entropy
On 07/12/2017 12:13 PM, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 12:37:59PM +0200, Harald Freudenberger wrote:
>> Currently /dev/hwrng uses default device node permissions
>> which is 0600. So by default the device node is not accessible
>> by an ordinary user. Some distros do rewrite the
On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 12:37:59PM +0200, Harald Freudenberger wrote:
> Currently /dev/hwrng uses default device node permissions
> which is 0600. So by default the device node is not accessible
> by an ordinary user. Some distros do rewrite the device node
> permissions via udev rule, others
Currently /dev/hwrng uses default device node permissions
which is 0600. So by default the device node is not accessible
by an ordinary user. Some distros do rewrite the device node
permissions via udev rule, others don't. This patch provides
0444 as the new mode value and so makes the device node