On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:24, Florian Zumbiehl<florz@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > reading some of the source of udev, I noticed what I would suspect to be a > race condition with security implications, namely that device nodes > are first mknod()/chmod()ed with the permission mask that they're supposed > to have at the end, but potentially at this point applying to the > wrong owner and group, before then being chown()ed to the correct > owner and group. The device node is owned by root, what's the problem here? Thanks, Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html