Re: APM -- wmapm and user-initiated sleep/suspend?
Hi,
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001 17:21:24 +0000 (GMT) Vivek <vivek@etla.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote:
>
> > > Change the permissions on the apm device and/or add yourself to an
> > > appropriate group?
> >
> > I tried that. Created an apm group, added myself, newgrp'd, and did
> > 'apm -S'. No dice.
>
> Yes, but what are the permissions on the apm device file?
It won't matter. Use of /dev/apm_bios to suspend the machine is restricted to
processes with the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability. On a normal Linux box that
means setuid to root.
I have been considering changing that to just depend on the devicenode
permissions for a while, but can't make up my mind. :-(
--
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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