On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 23:33 -0500, Michael E Brown wrote: > What is the policy/guidelines around having Set UID executables in > Fedora? > > I maintain libsmbios. Libsmbios has to read the system DMI/SMBIOS table > to do its job, and this table can currently only be obtained by > mmap()-ing /dev/mem. I also need to read certain areas of RAM to get > teh Dell system id, which is not in the DMI tables. I would like to make > some of this available to non-root users, but the only way I can think > of do do this involves SUID executables. > > Can anybody suggest a better way? Exposing the SMBIOS table as a device would be a start. There's precedent for drivers that do little else besides map a specific region of memory, since /dev/mem is just way too coarse-grained. - ajax -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
