[PATCH] Apply ACLs even if acl list reading failed

Danny Kukawka danny.kukawka at web.de
Thu Mar 6 10:50:11 PST 2008


On Mittwoch, 5. März 2008, Lubomir Kundrak wrote:
> List of applied ACLs can get corrupted, and that prevents hal-acl-tool
> from ever touching it again and fixing. Trivial fix attached.
>
> If that was due to a crash, etc, it is not valid any longer anyways. In
> that case probably it would make sense to relocate /var/lib/hal/acl-list
> into /var/run/hal, and let it be removed by operating system startup
> scripts.

If you say the change is okay from the security POV, I commited it.

Danny


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