From: Rene Rebe <rene.rebe@gmx.net>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: greg@kroah.com, jonathan@daria.co.uk,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Clifford Wolf <clifford@clifford.at>,
Valentin Ziegler <ziegler@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: Q: device(file) permissions for USB
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 01:20:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011207012037.71556cb0.rene.rebe@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0112061903230.29985-100000@binet.math.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20011207005707.6a09706a.rene.rebe@gmx.net> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0112061903230.29985-100000@binet.math.psu.edu>
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 19:09:57 -0500 (EST)
Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Rene Rebe wrote:
>
> > > > usbdevfs does not require devfs, which enables the majority of Linux
> > > > users to actually use it.
> > >
> > > s/majority of/& sane/
> >
> > Writing bash scripts is easier than adding two lines to devfsd.conf?? Btw.
> > sane users do not use such a mahor/messy distro ...
>
> Sane users don't run stuff with known unfixable security holes. The only
> variant that has any promise to get that crap fixed got no testing to
> speak about.
Hm. OK. Due to lag of time I was too long not on the mailing-list. :-(
I this is true it is a very strong point aganst devfs :-[[
> Ask Richard if you don't believe me - or grep the l-k archives. Again,
> all variants of devfs up to and including 2.4.16 are unfixable according
> to devfs author.
Hm.
> BTW, which distro are you talking about?
ROCK Linux (www.rocklinux.org)
k33p h4ck1n6
René
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2001-12-06 20:14 ` Jonathan Hudson
2001-12-06 21:30 ` Rene Rebe
2001-12-06 23:27 ` Greg KH
2001-12-06 23:37 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-06 23:57 ` Rene Rebe
2001-12-07 0:09 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-07 0:35 ` Rene Rebe
2001-12-07 0:20 ` Rene Rebe [this message]
2001-12-07 0:21 ` Richard Gooch
2001-12-06 23:45 ` Rene Rebe
2001-12-07 0:00 ` Greg KH
2001-12-07 0:11 ` Rene Rebe
2001-12-07 0:21 ` Greg KH
2001-12-06 20:01 kees
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