On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:42:52AM +0100, Marco d'Itri <m...@linux.it> wrote: > On Mar 17, Stephen Gran <sg...@debian.org> wrote: > > > This is the thinkpad /dev/nvram stuff, right? I thought for some tpctl > I think so. > > The rationale for this change is harmonization with all other > distributions. > > > utilities to work, you currently need to be in group nvram. Making that > > equivalent to kmem seems unnecessarily broad to me. > Users must not be in specific groups to access hardware, this is broken > and insecure.
Like e.g. the audio and video groups ? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
