On Jul 14, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > First I think that is only interesting to administrators of servers > and largescale installations, is that right? It does only create No, it is interesting to owners of any host connected to a modem which can be compromised to allow execution of arbitrary code. > obstacles for a home desktop user that s/he cannot use a modem > with a default install of the OS. So ask your favourite distribution to add by default to the dialout group the user created at install time. > So if it is an axiom that the default ACL rules are for servers, Is it? > tty[A-Z]*[0-9] and ircomm[0-9]* has nothing implicit in their > drivers that tells you there is a modem on the other side. Serial modems are like this, sometimes you cannot detect them. -- ciao, Marco -- 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
