Steve Langasek wrote: > It's certainly far *more* insecure to add users to the kmem group than to > the nvram group.
Definitely. > But I'm not aware of any reason that users need to access /dev/nvram, > generally. The only tool I know of that uses this interface is > hotkey-setup, which runs a daemon as root to handle polling the nvram state, > so the group permissions don't matter. What way use other programs like pidging-blinklight these days? I remember that /dev/nvram was needed to get a blinking keyboard light years ago... not sure what the current way is. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer GPG Fingerprint: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
