From: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
To: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dmi: export dmi data through debugfs
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:34:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100929093403.7db92388@endymion.delvare> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100928211246.GA20941@lixom.net>
Hi Olaf,
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:12:46 -0500, Olof Johansson wrote:
> I've found this quite useful since it allows dmidecode to run without
> root privileges using --from-dump to read this file instead
This is a bad idea. We do NOT want every user to have access to all the
DMI information. There is sensitive information in there (serial
numbers and UUIDs, and possibly even more sensitive data in
OEM-specific records.) If you look in /sys/class/dmi/id/, you'll see
that files board_serial, chassis_serial, product_serial and
product_uuid are only readable by root exactly for this reason.
So this is a NACK from me, sorry.
--
Jean Delvare
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-29 7:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-28 21:12 Olof Johansson
2010-09-29 7:34 ` Jean Delvare [this message]
2010-09-29 14:53 ` Olof Johansson
2010-09-29 15:11 ` Jean Delvare
2010-09-29 21:28 ` Alan Cox
2010-09-30 6:36 ` Jean Delvare
2010-09-30 14:31 ` Olof Johansson
2010-09-30 17:34 ` Andi Kleen
2010-09-30 17:59 ` Jean Delvare
2010-09-30 15:32 ` Bjorn Helgaas
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