Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: > On 09/04/12 02:25, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> I do understand that some will be more comfortable with the tighter >> permissions just on principle, but I'm trying to understand why rw >> access to /dev/dri/card0 for a 'guest' user would be a problem.
> I'm not an expert hacker, so I would know how, but I could just imaging > there being an exploit of sending the right combination of bytes to say > hang the video driver. > Just me being paranoid. I understand what you are saying, but there are a lot of other cases. Virtually all tty interfaces are 666. Also rtc and, in my case, nividia0 and nvidiactl. It's curious that console is 622. Again, I have no problems with using the video group. I was just suggesting a possible alternative. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
