On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Jean Delvare <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Navin, > > Please don't top-post. > > Le Friday 22 May 2015 à 12:27 +0530, Navin P a écrit : >> Thanks Jean. >> I used lshal so that it works on uid!=0. > > I suppose that hald is reading the information from sysfs or /dev/mem as > root before dropping the root privileges. > >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/5/22/67 >> Do you think the above patch is any relevant or you see any downsides of it ? > > There have been many people complaining about the inability to read uuid > and serial numbers as non-root users over the years. Their complaints > have always been ignored or turned down so far and I can't see this > changing. UUIDs and serial numbers are considered private information > which should not be readable by everyone by default. > > If you want these values to be world readable on your system, feel free > to chmod them at boot time. The permissions defined in the dmi-id driver > are only the default permissions, nothing prevents you from changing > them at run-time (as root, obviously.) >
Any particular reason why they shouldn't be world readable ie uuid and serial numbers for non-root users that you know of ? _______________________________________________ https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/dmidecode-devel
