On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 10:36:47PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
World writeable /dev/pmu isn't that bad. sleep is controlled by
CAP_SYS_ADMIN anyway, so you can only listen to PMU events and
control the backlight. So the worst thing a malign user can do is
switch your backlight off ...
Assuming /dev/pmu is user writable by default is clearly incorrect.
gnome-settings-daemon should run suid root, or fix /dev/pmu permissions at
install time. Or use fblevel (suid root) to manipulate backlight. IMHO
world writeable /dev/pmu constitutes too high a risk to consider the
second
Le Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 11:06:58PM +0200, Michel Dänzer a écrit :
On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 14:31, Lucas Moulin wrote:
Le Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 12:24:11AM +0200, Michel Dänzer a écrit :
So you're getting this message too ?
No, my user account has permission to access /dev/pmu.
How did you
that everytime I log in GNOME, I get a dialog box saying : permissions
on /dev/pmu are broken. Permissions are set as follows :
$ ls -l /dev/pmu
crw---1 root root 10, 154 2004-04-14 16:48 /dev/pmu
I'm using GNOME up-to-date, kernel 2.4.25-ben1, gdm to log, and
Le Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 12:24:11AM +0200, Michel Dänzer a écrit :
So you're getting this message too ?
No, my user account has permission to access /dev/pmu.
How did you do that ? Added your user to some group or modified the
permissions ?
Is there any way to tell acme code to not show the
On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 14:31, Lucas Moulin wrote:
Le Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 12:24:11AM +0200, Michel Dnzer a crit :
So you're getting this message too ?
No, my user account has permission to access /dev/pmu.
How did you do that ? Added your user to some group or modified the
permissions ?
On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 03:43, Lucas Moulin wrote:
I'm writing to this list since I know some of you are already using
GNOME 2.6 from experimental on your PPC machines.
Yep, and building and uploading them as they come along. :)
Well, I made the upgrade today, and everything's working fine,
Le Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 01:47:57PM +0200, Michel Dänzer a écrit :
On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 03:43, Lucas Moulin wrote:
I'm writing to this list since I know some of you are already using
GNOME 2.6 from experimental on your PPC machines.
Yep, and building and uploading them as they come along. :)
On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 14:13, Lucas Moulin wrote:
Le Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 01:47:57PM +0200, Michel Dnzer a crit :
On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 03:43, Lucas Moulin wrote:
Well, I made the upgrade today, and everything's working fine, except
that everytime I log in GNOME, I get a dialog box saying
Hi all,
I'm writing to this list since I know some of you are already using
GNOME 2.6 from experimental on your PPC machines.
Well, I made the upgrade today, and everything's working fine, except
that everytime I log in GNOME, I get a dialog box saying : permissions
on /dev/pmu are broken.
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