Le Friday 22 May 2015 à 14:37 +0530, Navin P a écrit : > 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 ?
Well, as I just wrote above: "UUIDs and serial numbers are considered private information which should not be readable by everyone by default." Not everybody likes to be identified uniquely by random 3rd-party software. -- Jean Delvare SUSE L3 Support _______________________________________________ https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/dmidecode-devel
