[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: group nvram



On Mar 17, Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org> wrote:

> This is the thinkpad /dev/nvram stuff, right?  I thought for some tpctl
I think so.

The rationale for this change is harmonization with all other
distributions.

> utilities to work, you currently need to be in group nvram.  Making that
> equivalent to kmem seems unnecessarily broad to me.
Users must not be in specific groups to access hardware, this is broken
and insecure.


On Mar 17, Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> wrote:

> Are you planning to file bugs against affected packages to help the 
> transition?
I do not know which packages are affected, if any.

> How will upgrades (from lenny, etch, ...) be handled?
This is up to the maintainers of the affected package.

-- 
ciao,
Marco

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: Digital signature


Reply to: