Re: group nvram
On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
> 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.
Which are? If you mean people running tpb, tpb is as far as I know,
completely obsolete on anything that can run thinkpad-acpi.
I am honestely curious about it, and I can *do* something about it easily if
there is some functionality missing from thinkpad-acpi that is commonly used
on thinkpads that will run Debian Squeeze.
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them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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