udev doesn't change permissions on these devices, that's a kernel
default (devtmpfs). However, why is that bad? As far as I know, the
devices are writable for non-root users so that you can have usespace
daemons like haveged for additional entropy data (but not increase it --
that's a separate ioctl(RNDADDENTROPY) which is limited to root, so that
users can't make entropy any worse). So I think this is by design, but I
keep this open in case you see an actual issue here? Thanks!
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Title:
/dev/random and /dev/urandom world writeable
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
Incomplete
Bug description:
It looks like in 14.04.1 that /dev/random and /dev/urandom are world-
writeable. This occurs in at least 14.04.1 Desktop for AMD64 and
Server for i386
$ ls -l /dev/*random
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 8 Nov 25 10:44 /dev/random
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 9 Nov 25 10:44 /dev/urandom
As far as I know, they should be 664 or 644.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: base-files 7.2ubuntu5.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-40.69-generic 3.13.11.10
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-40-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun Nov 30 12:06:43 2014
Dependencies:
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-10-26 (34 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64
(20140722.2)
SourcePackage: base-files
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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