Bug 152330 - RFE: add /dev/nvram to console.perms
Summary: RFE: add /dev/nvram to console.perms
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: pam
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Tomas Mraz
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-03-28 17:08 UTC by Ville Skyttä
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-04-26 11:48:54 UTC
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Description Ville Skyttä 2005-03-28 17:08:21 UTC
Granting logged on users read access to /dev/nvram would be nice; for example
tpb from Fedora Extras could use that.  More details about the tpb case:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-packaging/2005-March/msg00077.html

How about adding for example this to console.perms?

  <console> 0400 /dev/nvram 0600 root

Comment 1 Tomas Mraz 2005-04-26 11:48:54 UTC
This is not right because the user can then chmod the /dev/nvram to any value
and overwrite the CMOS contents. The only solution would be to consider if
reading the contents of /dev/nvram is really harmless and if that's true then
assign it 0644 permissions in the udev permissions file.


Comment 2 Ville Skyttä 2005-04-26 14:13:42 UTC
Good point, thanks.  The chmod problem never occurred to me, will look for
another solution.


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