Re: group nvram

[Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it> wrote:
> On Mar 18, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
>
>> A peek at the source says it uses /proc/acpi/ibm/light.
> Other people told me that they believe that nowadays all modern
> thinkpads use a kernel driver.
>
> This is the complete list of groups which I'd rather stop using:
>
>    fuse (I have no idea about how FUSE works)
>    kvm (what are the security implications of access to /dev/kvm?)
>    nvram
>    rdma (infiniband devices)
>    scanner (do SCSI scanners still exist? how are they used?)

Scanner is useful, imagine I work in a company working on a secret
project. One of the computer has a scanner. Do you wnat to give
scanning right to the internship student ?

Bastien