Re: Who wants to test cracklinux??

From: Ben Ford
Date: Sun Apr 02 2006 - 18:35:33 EST


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Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>> I've written a small kernel module & shared object for kernel 2.6 to
>> enable the following for normal users:
>>
>> - inb()/outb()... via a wrapper function
> ioperm() does that already, no? You mean, you enable it for non-root,
> too? That's security hole.

My OS development classes have a lab of machines that run entirely as
root just for these reasons. I think it's valid to allow these
operations as non-root in certain situations. It is better than
running *everything* as root, no?

- -b

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