On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 23:26 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 09:11:03PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Sul, 2005-01-16 at 12:04, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > (where /proc/tty/driver/serial is mentioned as leaking sensitive > > > > information), to me the contents of usbserial look innocent enough. > > > > Do you have any hints on what might be a good solution? > > > > > > The permissions on the directory look indeed too strict to me. It might > > > be better to just use strict permissions on /proc/tty/driver/serial > > > indeed. > > > > The file containts transmit and receive byte counts, which means you can > > both measure intercharacter delay and character count. Thats a big help > > to password guessers > > I know. But that doesn't explain why we don't keep strict permissions > only on that file but on the directory.
ls -la on the file gives you the size maybe ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
