Re: Direct access to hardware

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On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Oliver Xymoron wrote:
> >
> > Arguably RAWIO subsumes ADMIN in theory, but I'll leave it to capabilities
> > experts to decide whether this should have only one check.
>
> Yes, and please be careful not to choke current admin-tools.
> I am not a "capabilities experts" just paranoid with some cause in mind
> but it escapes me now.

None of this will affect any current distributions or their tools - root
on current systems has all capabilities. The kernel framework is now
mostly in place to build a system that doesn't have an all-powerful user
and all-powerful setuid apps.

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