Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 16 Dec 2007 22:01:20 +1030 | From | David Newall <> | Subject | Re: [patch 1/2] [RFC] Simple tamper-proof device filesystem. |
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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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