On 05/24/2011 04:49 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 03:59:53PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:46:48AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
Hello!
In Oneiric, I'd like to change the default availability of yet another
long-standing system debugging feature: dmesg.
Thoughts, flames, etc?
See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/716595 for some
sudo caching problems apport has had to work around which might pose
some complications here as well.
Yeah, that bug is pretty ugly. :)
Can you outline your plans for updating apport in conjunction with this
change?
Well, it needs to be larger than just apport. A lot of things call dmesg,
and I can't fix them all, but getting people educated about what has
changed is the first step.
As for apport itself, I do not have an immediate solution. hookutils.py's
attachmesg() will need privs, and that's used all over the place
(attach_alsa(), attach_hardware()):
$ find -P /usr/share/apport -type f | xargs egrep -H
'attach_(hardware|alsa|dmesg)' | cut -d: -f1 | sort -u | wc -l
33
I'm open to suggestions.
-Kees
Just FYI, the kernel hooks already ask for permissions to get the
ACPI tables.
Brad
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