From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 15 13:50:43 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA15757 for current-outgoing; Mon, 15 May 1995 13:50:43 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA15751 for ; Mon, 15 May 1995 13:50:39 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA07389; Mon, 15 May 1995 13:49:58 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199505152049.NAA07389@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: misc/423: security of sound devices To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 13:49:57 -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 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 638 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? Not printers, they should be under the control of lpd which already handles the device access issue, or should. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD