[systemd-devel] [PATCH] support statically configured acls

[Ludwig Nussel]

Tom Gundersen wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel at suse.de> wrote:
>> useful to get ACLs on files, sockets etc not known to udev
>
> Do you have a particular use case in mind?

There are certain proprietary kernel modules that cannot properly
register their device nodes but nevertheless need access by the desktop
user.

> I'd be interested in making ACL's work on udev's static_nodes, which
> seems related, but not quite the same...

You mean those devname:xxx entries in modules.alias? If there was a way
to install ACLs on those that might solve my problem too. Do you have an
idea how to implement that yet?

cu
Ludwig

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