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Re: group nvram



Marco d'Itri wrote:
> Unless somebody will have persuasive objections I will change it to
> group kmem in a future udev upgrade.

Please do not as it will allow users which need to access Thinkpad-specific
devices (== /dev/nvram) access to /dev/{mem,kmem,port}. That's a huge security
hole in my opinion.


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