for embedded platform development, its required to create devices which are hardware specific (i.e. our own modules).
any way to reduce the risk? Thanks On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ohad Levy wrote: > > > Hello All, > > > > Is there any risk to give a user sudo rights of mknod? > > as far as I understand it now, it can only create new devices, therefor > > the risk for a running system is minimal. > > > > Thanks, > > Ohad > > > As others mentioned, giving someone the right to mknod is equivalent to > giving them root in a fairly straight forward way. > > May I ask, though, why you want to allow them to mknod? > > Shachar >
