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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!agate!overload.lbl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!hookup!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ioperm call on FreeBSD? Date: 6 Jan 1996 17:48:37 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4cmcll$eli@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <DKEMoG.C19@midway.uchicago.edu> <4c49he$f8v@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4c4hcm$ur@prds-grn.demon.co.uk> <4c8ifo$30e@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4cj6sb$gip@atusks02.aut.alcatel.at> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 ladavac@aut.alcatel.at (Marino Ladavac) writes: > iomem access control being granted through a special file makes it > possible for the program to execute setgid iomem, rather than setuid > root, even though the point is moot since the iomem hole is big > enough to allow the program programmed io to the disc... Still, > cosmetically speaking :) Iomem acces _is_ granted through a special file, and it's up to you to create a group iomem for it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)