http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=546409
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=546409#c3
--- Comment #3 from Kay Sievers 2009-12-22 21:32:54 UTC ---
It was an upstream decision, not to provide non-root access to these nodes.
Firewire-devices can do DMA and a member of the video group would be able to
gain access to resources it shouldn't.
This rule is for the old deprecated stack of the kernel firewire drivers, which
does not handle this properly.
The mentioned rule should not be shipped by the default system. Users can
install such rule manually though, if the security issues don't matter in their
installation.
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