On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 03:59:53PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:46:48AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > > Hello! > > > > In Oneiric, I'd like to change the default availability of yet another > > long-standing system debugging feature: dmesg. > > > > Thoughts, flames, etc? > > See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/716595 for some > sudo caching problems apport has had to work around which might pose > some complications here as well.
Yeah, that bug is pretty ugly. :) > Can you outline your plans for updating apport in conjunction with this > change? Well, it needs to be larger than just apport. A lot of things call dmesg, and I can't fix them all, but getting people educated about what has changed is the first step. As for apport itself, I do not have an immediate solution. hookutils.py's attachmesg() will need privs, and that's used all over the place (attach_alsa(), attach_hardware()): $ find -P /usr/share/apport -type f | xargs egrep -H 'attach_(hardware|alsa|dmesg)' | cut -d: -f1 | sort -u | wc -l 33 I'm open to suggestions. -Kees -- Kees Cook Ubuntu Security Team -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
