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SubjectRe: [patch 1/2] [RFC] Simple tamper-proof device filesystem.
Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> David Newall wrote:
>
>> Tetsuo Handa wrote:
>>
>>> /dev needs to be writable, but this means that files on /dev might be
>>> tampered with.
>>>
>> I infer that you mean /dev needs to be writable by anyone, not by just
>> its owner or owner and group (conventionally root/root.) This goes
>> against conventional wisdom, which is that /dev must be writable only by
>> the administrator. Why do you say otherwise?
>>
> I didn't mean that "/dev is writable by everybody".
>

Glad to hear it! :)

> I meant that "/dev must be mounted for read-write mode"
>

Again, why?


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