On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 15:50, Thomas Hood wrote: > Permissions on /dev/apm_bios are currently 660. > Is there any reason these permissions shouldn't be 664? > > The latter would allow non-root users to find out about > power management events (but not to initiate them).
You should ask the authors of the apm kernel code about that. > I would also like to know what people think would be the > right way safely to allow users other than root to perform > power management events. Currently only root can perform > apm suspend, for example. It would be nice if anyone in > the operator group could also do this. The apm driver > requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN for privileged operations, so a > setuid program would be required. Report #134595 asks > that /usr/bin/apm simply be made setuid root; please read > the discussion there first. SUID root is not required to provide capabilities on LSM systems, but that's probably not relevant to this discussion. Why not use pam_group.so to add the apm group to the user if they login at the console? If you're at the console of a laptop you can always suspend by shutting the lid anyway... -- If you send email to me or to a mailing list that I use which has >4 lines of legalistic junk at the end then you are specifically authorizing me to do whatever I wish with the message and all other messages from your domain, by posting the message you agree that your long legalistic sig is void. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
