1) Permissions on /dev/apm_bios are currently 660. Is there any reason these permissions shouldn't be 664?
The latter would allow non-root users to find out about power management events (but not to initiate them). 2) I would also like to know what people think would be the right way safely to allow users other than root to perform power management events. Currently only root can perform apm suspend, for example. It would be nice if anyone in the operator group could also do this. The apm driver requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN for privileged operations, so a setuid program would be required. Report #134595 asks that /usr/bin/apm simply be made setuid root; please read the discussion there first. -- Thomas Hood
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