Re: Permission for 'dev/pmu'
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Sven Luther wrote:
> 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.
>
> Makes sense, then the gnome-stuff which now include acme needs to be fixed in
> this regard. I consider this a RC quality bug, and something which needs
> fixing before the sarge release. You seem informed about this issue, could you
> follow up on this, and make sure it just doesn't get forgotten and we release
> with this ugly bug ?
The ACME fix exists and is already patched into Ubuntu packages for Warty,
according to Sebastien Bacher. For some reason, it's not applied in Debian.
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Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant
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