From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Feb 14 19:34:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from orion.ac.hmc.edu (Orion.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.20]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 367933E64 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 19:34:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by orion.ac.hmc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA16967; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 19:34:19 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 19:34:19 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Warner Losh Cc: Mitsuru IWASAKI , slumos@nevada.edu, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: APM questions Message-ID: <20000214193419.A14346@orion.ac.hmc.edu> References: <200002150208.LAA06403@tasogare.imasy.or.jp> <200002150208.LAA06403@tasogare.imasy.or.jp> <200002150320.UAA61998@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: <200002150320.UAA61998@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 08:20:34PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 08:20:34PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <200002150208.LAA06403@tasogare.imasy.or.jp> Mitsuru IWASAKI writes: > : I recommend adding users as operator into /etc/group. > > I would like to second this as well. It is a good thing. > Alternatively, one can chmod /dev/apm* to 777 so that anybody can do > apm things. On a single user machine that has only one user, this is > likely a good thing. If the thugs break into my laptop, then I think > that if they do apm things I will notice and I will take corrective > actions. It would also cut them off from doing further damage :-) I've taken to creating an apm group and adding the users to it as needed. That way I know exactly what permissions I'm granting (and I avoid granting read access to all drives ;-). -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message