Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 01:40:10 -0700 (PDT) From: sos@FreeBSD.org To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, bde@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa syscons.c Message-ID: <199510180840.BAA05580@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199510140747.RAA05831@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Oct 14, 95 05:47:41 pm
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In reply to Bruce Evans who wrote:
>
> > Modified: sys/i386/isa syscons.c
> > Log:
> > Don't allow i/o operations for non-root users.
>
> This change should probably be in 2.1, but I'm not sure if it breaks
> anything. pcvt has restricted i// privilege to root for a long time.
>
> i/o privilege should never have been granted in devices other than
> /dev/io. /dev/io has its own permissions which can be used to grant
> i/o privilege to a more selective group than root || { anyone that
> can talk to a ttyv }.
Strange, I havn't been able to use I/O ports on my system as a
regular user for ages now (I think it change when we switched
to the lite tree). I thought this had been fixed somewhere else
in the system, very strange endeed....
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So much code to hack -- so little time
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