https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=210899 ------- Comment #40 from rschiele@gmail.com 2007-02-02 04:42 MST ------- BTW: Actually the security argument does not make any sense at all because in practice there are two classes of users: 1. Users that _don't_ run applications using /proc/bus/usb/devices. Those users will not mount /proc/bus/usb if it is disabled by default and then there is no issue for them. 2. Users that _do_ run such applications. Those users are forced now to use a custom kernel. When they do so they have again USBDEVFS with all its security concerns and additionally might miss the official kernel security updates provided by Novell. Because of that reasons those users run an even _more_ insecure system. Trying to _enforce_ security that way is pointless anyway. If you were consequent in that way you had to patch chmod from the distribution to disallow setting the SUID bit because it is a security risk if someone uses this to set the SUID bit on arbitrary binaries. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.