On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 06:53:21PM +0100, Matthew Burgess wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: > >On 8/14/06, Joe Ciccone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>In 25-lfs.rules there is, > >>KERNEL=="fb[0-9]*", MODE="0620", GROUP="video" > >>Shouldn't the mode be 0660? > > > >That's a good question. > > Indeed it is! I think it was just taken from the example rules files > that ship with the udev tarball. > http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2000/11/msg00152.html has some > information relating to the security issues surrounding /dev/fb > permissions and why Debian changed to using 0620.
That only explains 620 as opposed to 622. Although one of the replies does say that fbtv and fbi only need write access (not read access). However, some programs use read access. links appears to use read access to scroll the screen. Alex :-) -- Pippin Computer Monkey to the Pelican www.oxrev.org.uk, www.corpusjcr.org, www.rev.org.uk
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