[systemd-devel] joystick doesn't respect seat rule

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 09:22:23PM +0200, Floris wrote:
> Op Wed, 28 May 2014 20:38:17 +0200 schreef Mantas Mikulėnas
> <grawity at gmail.com>:
> 
> >
> >So the seat assignment works fine – gdm is added to the ACL.
> >
> >The problem is that the devnode is *world-readable*.
> 
> and how can we fix this?

It has "always" been like this:

commit d638611c44672dea8d8a498dbe84c7d650ef2194
Author: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers at vrfy.org>
Date:   Fri Aug 10 12:36:59 2007 +0200

    rules: add default rules

I guess that the assumption is that this is relatively safe to allow
public reading of joystick and mouse input. Kay, please correct me
if necessary.

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