Some privilege reduction patches

[Danny Kukawka]

On Saturday 18 February 2006 19:27, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > E. g. the ACPI helper doesn't need root privileges since
> > it can happily read from acpid. This even helps to prevent some race
> > conditions between acpid and hal which apparently crash acpid in
> > Debian in some cases.
>
> As discussed some distributions don't ship acpid and I don't want hal to
> depend on it. I also don't want hald to be restarted on package
> upgrades, but, eh, that's an old discussion...
>
> Btw, with my GNOME hat on, I remark that some day g-p-m will be able to
> completely replace acpid, we just need the infrastructure for running
> policy pieces when no user is logged in. I rambled about that here

How should g-p-m ever be able to replace acpid? Would you move the tasks (as 
e.g. multiplexing acpi events via a socket to allow more than one connecting 
application as on the kernel acpi event interface in proc) of acpid to g-p-m?  

Is this a good idea?

Danny