[PATCH] [RFC] Always run hald as non-root

[Pozsár Balázs]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 04:59:40PM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 00:07 +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> >   Since i seem to be in an extreme mood anyway, attached it is a patch that
> >   will make hal always drop permissions to non-root. Also it removes keeping
> >   the net admin capability as it's not being used anymore. 
> 
> Not exactly true - it is (was, see below) used for network link
> detection. 
> 
> But, anyway, after some thorough discussion with Dan Williams
> (NetworkManager maintainer), I've decided to remove this since network
> link detection is a whole ordeal in itself (ethtool, mii, traffic
> sniffing, different sysfs carrier file behavior dependent on
> driver/network card/chip set, crashers caused by broken drivers etc.).
> So NM and other tools are on their own now. 

I understand it is hard to do link detection. But isn't hal's main to 
provide a unified abstraction layer about hardware, exactly because 
collecting information from lots of places is a hard task, and to do it 
in one place?

If this is only a short-term feature removal to let the link detection 
code settle, I can understand that too.

Just one little idea: some kind of config switch could be provided until 
this code is stabilized, to disable it to avoid kernel crashes if you 
are afraid of that.


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pozsy
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