On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 07:55:48PM -0700, Patrick J. Kobly wrote: > On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 06:55:19PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 07:21:21PM -0700, Patrick J. Kobly wrote: > > > I'm sending this out now, so that I can get comments, recommendations and > > > device ID's for Samsung MP3 players that I may be able to support. > > > Is there any reason this has to be a kernel driver? Can't you just use > > usbfs or libusb to talk to the device just as easily? > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't apps which use libusb need to be setuid > root? At least with an in-kernel driver, we limit privileged code to only the > code in the kernel driver, where with libusb, we have more setuid user-apps, > each of which needs to be carefully checked for buffer overflows and other > vulnerabilities. (This is _the_ reason that I don't like the solution taken > for CD-R's under linux - use sg, set cdrecord setuid or run it as root)
Not true at all. You can mount usbfs with any kind of permission settings you might wish for. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
