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


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