On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 10:02:12PM +0000, Christopher Brannon wrote: > Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> writes: > > > As I don't want to just blindly remove the world writable permissions on > > Hah, hah! This is very punny, though I'm certain that you didn't intend > to make a pun. (Highlighting *blindly*). > > > all of these files, could someone go through and verify which ones > > should and should not be world writable? > > Personally, I'd say ditch the world-readable bit. We should deal with > this in terms of groups. The only user who should really be able to > write to these files is the one sitting at the console. Do we know for sure that udev can manipulate the group ownership of files in the /sys hierarchy? I'll be the first to admit that I have only briefly looked at udev, but I don't think we should remove the world writable bit until we know for sure whether udev can do anything with the /sys hierarchy. Thanks, William
