permissions of /proc/tty/driver
Hi.
This may not be stritly on topic, but I couln't figure out a better
place to ask:
During the packaging of an application, I have the following problem:
I would like to run a daemon as non-root. The daemon likes to
(continually) check /proc/tty/driver/usbserial to see whether or not
interesting USB devices are connected. The permissions of this actual
file is (on a kernel compiled from Debian's kernel-source-2.6.10) 0444,
so this isn't a problem. However, the parent directory /proc/tty/driver
is 0500. I'm not sure whether this is related to Debian DSAs 358 or 423
(where /proc/tty/driver/serial is mentioned as leaking sensitive
information), to me the contents of usbserial look innocent enough.
Do you have any hints on what might be a good solution?
Kind regards and thanks in advance
T.
P.S.: Please CC me on replies.
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Thomas Viehmann, <http://thomas.viehmann.net/>
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