Some privilege reduction patches; take #2

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 12:44:54PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hi David!
> 
> David Zeuthen [2006-02-22 16:13 -0500]:
> > On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 16:26 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> > > Thanks for considering, and have a nice day!
> > 
> > Thanks for the patch. I've committed everything 
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> > except for the addon-storage privilege dropping. I don't really know
> > what to do there...
> 
> Me neither unfortunately; udev's flexibility also has it's downsides ;)
> But with the committed bits, distribution specific customization is
> trivial, so I think that should be good enough for now.

Maybe we could patch addon-storage to run as user hal by default, but temporary
raise permissions when it wants to do an open() call? 

  Sjoerd
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