So that means that libraw1394 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/libraw1394/) must be up to date from now on? If so, I will ask its maintainer for it. (2010年02月17日 22:57), Kay Sievers wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 22:40, Aymeric O. <ejisneos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I just noticed raw1394 is owned by the "root" group, but it should be >> owned by "disk" so it could be used by a regular user. This problem >> occurs with both kernels. Is it a udev problem or should our udev be >> added some rules to solve this? >> > Default installations don't want that, because of security concerns > with firewire and DMA access. > > The old firewire stack is deprecated now and replaced with new > drivers, so these rules will not be there for very long anymore. > > No regular user should ever be in the group "disk". It will allow to > reformat all system partitions. Historically "disk" is more for backup > programs. > > Also raw1394 has not much to do with "disk". :) > > Kay >
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