From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 15 13:49:24 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA15694 for current-outgoing; Mon, 15 May 1995 13:49:24 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA15688 for ; Mon, 15 May 1995 13:49:22 -0700 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id NAA17968; Mon, 15 May 1995 13:49:05 -0700 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199505152049.NAA17968@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: misc/423: security of sound devices To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 13:49:05 -0700 (PDT) Cc: pst@Shockwave.COM, current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199505152037.GAA09351@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at May 16, 95 06:37:52 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 668 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >The right model is to do the same thing that we do with /dev/console. If > >you're logged in at the console (or local X server), you own the sound devices. > >When you logout, they should go back to root.sound ownership, with no world > >access. > > This model applies to other devices physically near the console. Joysticks. > Floppies? Scanners. Printers? This can be done with devfs I presume, given that we need to make the right kind of hacks^H^H^H^H^H links in the code. -- Poul-Henning Kamp -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'