Re: Permission for 'dev/pmu'
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 02:33:58AM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Sven Luther wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 11:48:41PM -0800, Brad Boyer wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 07:32:32AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > Do we already have a bug against udev to have the above line per default, or
> > > > otherwise finally fix this issue ?
> > >
> > > There were some objections to it the last time it was mentioned. I
> > > believe there were some questions about it being a bad idea to
> > > make the permissions more open by default. Requesting sleep is
> > > restricted to root anyway, but there are some other operations
> > > that while less sensitive than sleep should still be restricted.
> >
> > Makes sense, then the gnome-stuff which now include acme needs to be fixed in
> > this regard. I consider this a RC quality bug, and something which needs
> > fixing before the sarge release. You seem informed about this issue, could you
> > follow up on this, and make sure it just doesn't get forgotten and we release
> > with this ugly bug ?
>
> The ACME fix exists and is already patched into Ubuntu packages for Warty,
> according to Sebastien Bacher. For some reason, it's not applied in Debian.
So, let's apply it ASAP.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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