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    SubjectRe: Who wants to test cracklinux??
    On Mon, 03 Apr 2006 00:39:41 +0200
    Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:

    > On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 15:34 -0700, Ben Ford wrote:
    > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
    > > Hash: SHA1
    > >
    > > Pavel Machek wrote:
    > > > Hi!
    > > >> I've written a small kernel module & shared object for kernel 2.6 to
    > > >> enable the following for normal users:
    > > >>
    > > >> - inb()/outb()... via a wrapper function
    > > > ioperm() does that already, no? You mean, you enable it for non-root,
    > > > too? That's security hole.
    > >
    > > My OS development classes have a lab of machines that run entirely as
    > > root just for these reasons. I think it's valid to allow these
    > > operations as non-root in certain situations. It is better than
    > > running *everything* as root, no?

    Yes, that's exactly what the whole module is meant for.

    >
    > is there any difference? I mean... if you can outb you for all intents
    > and purposes are root anyway ;) (like you can overwrite any memory in
    > the system etc etc)
    >

    Don't you think beeing root is a little bit more
    easy than doing everything with outb??? ;))

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