On Oct 04, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> wrote: > 3. Open raw device file for reading, it is unprotected at this time It is *always* unprotected, by default. But it (usually) does not matter, because access is exclusive and the kernel drivers binding to the device prevent userspace from accessing the pseudo-devices. > It will be done when we deploy it on Debian and remove the buggy crap we > have right now/apply a workaround for those not using udev/2.6.14. It has been this way for years, so it can probably wait a couple of months more. People who will not upgrade will get what they deserve. > Are the current udev/hotplug config/agents dealing with USB devices > comprehensive enough that just changing the usbfs mounting to root-only by > default would simply work? You need to ask the maintainers of the packages which use the /proc/bus/usb/ pseudo-devices, udev and hotplug only provide infrastructure. -- ciao, Marco
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