On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 01:12:23PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Nick Sayer writes:
> : The "why bother" is easy -- one should not have to belong to group
> : operator to determine the current battery state. Too many things
> : already have to be sgid (at least) without making this another reason.
>
> You should already be a member of group operator so that you can
> suspend your machine :-).
Not necessarily. Fn+Esc (or Fn+F12) works quite nicely on this VAIO.
> However, wouldn't it be much simpler and easier to make apm world
> readable instead? Hmmm, and hack apm.c to open readonly. Hmmm, there
> are other problems with that since you can do the nasty things... But
> those should be fixed.
I'd prefer getting the permissions right as well. Querying the current
battery state shouldn't require special privs.
N
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