"doing" things to HAL devices

Richard Hughes richard at hughsie.com
Wed Mar 16 01:39:15 PST 2005


On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 22:29 -0500, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 19:41, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > My personal opinion is that for 99.9% of people, locking down the "who
> > can suspend" won't be an option. And the sort of people that will would
> > know how to edit a config file to change ALLOWSUSPEND=NO :-)
> 
> Yes and 75% of all statistics are made up.  Why would you want to trade
> off security for convenience when this can be done just as securely and
> be convenient with security options such as pam_console?  I think other
> distros have similar methods that can vastly improve security without
> inconveniencing the user.  Security and convenience are not mutually
> exclusive.  It is in fact the security of the dbus at_console rules that
> allow us to think of ways we can make Linux more convenient to the user.

Point taken. :-)

Richard.


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