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From: Bill Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
To: Ioannis Aslanidis <aioannis@×××××.org>
Cc: Gentoo-Dev List <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RTC group added to baselayout?
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 06:52:21
Message-Id: 1092811933.32420.49.camel@cbbcbitl303c.murdoch.edu.au
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RTC group added to baselayout? by Ioannis Aslanidis
1 add vmware (readonly ?), chrony (read/write) and (I think) tvtime
2 (readonly ?, the docs did say to set "sysctl -w
3 dev.rtc.max-user-freq=1024" manually - I do this in
4 /etc/conf.d/local.start)
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6 The fix was to change the permissions on /dev/rtc and they shared
7 happily, but is this a good idea on a multiuse system? - an RTC group
8 may be better. Or could it enough to make it readonly for users - this
9 might actually be more controllable (leave write access with root)?
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11 BillK
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14 On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 14:24, Ioannis Aslanidis wrote:
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18 > ~From the point of view of security, adding a group wouldn't be bad. One
19 > never knows if that could be exploitable one day... :)
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21 > Chris White wrote:
22 > | http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28486#c3
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24 > | This was mentioned here. Any sort of thoughts on this? MPlayer deals
25 > | with /dev/rtc and I found out museseq deals with it as well (in fact,
26 > | it will crash if it doesn't have access to it...). I'm sure there may
27 > | be other programs that deal with the real time clock, so I think it's
28 > | a good idea. Feel free to flame/agree/whatever.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] RTC group added to baselayout? Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>