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Date:      Mon, 15 May 1995 13:49:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Cc:        pst@Shockwave.COM, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: misc/423: security of sound devices
Message-ID:  <199505152049.NAA17968@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <199505152037.GAA09351@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at May 16, 95 06:37:52 am

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> >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 <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent'
=> 'no rude people are relevant'



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