On Fri, 28 May 2010 16:20:53 +0200 Martin Jansa <martin.ja...@gmail.com> said:
> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 06:54:44PM +0500, Shaz wrote: > > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Tom Hacohen <t...@stosb.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Shaz <shazal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> > > >> Still not satisfied because sharing phones is very unusual. > > > > > > Although unusual, it's a nice feature, and it's easy to do (after you run > > > everything as non-root). > > > In other words, don't try to justify a bad design. (i.e hardcoding user > > > names). > > > > So going back to the point where Mickey pointed out that this requires > > some change in the kernel. I still have no idea why. Is the root > > currently hard coded? Let me check ... > > > > Mickey said: You may have to fix the kernel to provide sysfs access to > > non-priviledged users. I don't get this. > > I guess that Mickey meant ie fsogsmd running under unprivileged "gsm" > user asking kernel to power-up gsm chip. > > Running all fso daemons which needs to control hw, with suid doesn't improve > current situation that much. > > Regards, you could have an fsopowerd that runs as root whose sole purpose is to power up and down things (safely and securely only for clients/processes authorised to do so). same principle as above applies. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com
