Re: Permission for 'dev/pmu'
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 11:48:41PM -0800, Brad Boyer wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 07:32:32AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Do we already have a bug against udev to have the above line per default, or
> > otherwise finally fix this issue ?
>
> There were some objections to it the last time it was mentioned. I
> believe there were some questions about it being a bad idea to
> make the permissions more open by default. Requesting sleep is
> restricted to root anyway, but there are some other operations
> that while less sensitive than sleep should still be restricted.
Actually marking it some group that users aren't added to by default
is okay. Last time people wanted to make it 666 which is definitly
not okay.
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