[gentoo-dev] RTC group added to baselayout?

[gentoo-dev] RTC group added to baselayout?

[Chris White]

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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28486#c3

This was mentioned here.  Any sort of thoughts on this?  MPlayer deals
with /dev/rtc and I found out museseq deals with it as well (in fact,
it will crash if it doesn't have access to it...).  I'm sure there may
be other programs that deal with the real time clock, so I think it's
a good idea.  Feel free to flame/agree/whatever.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] RTC group added to baselayout?

[Jeremy Maitin-Shepard]

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I think this is a good addition.  I add an rtc group and the relevant
entries to console.perms on the machines I administer.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] RTC group added to baselayout?

[Ioannis Aslanidis]

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~From the point of view of security, adding a group wouldn't be bad. One
never knows if that could be exploitable one day... :)

Chris White wrote:
| http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28486#c3
|
| This was mentioned here.  Any sort of thoughts on this?  MPlayer deals
| with /dev/rtc and I found out museseq deals with it as well (in fact,
| it will crash if it doesn't have access to it...).  I'm sure there may
| be other programs that deal with the real time clock, so I think it's
| a good idea.  Feel free to flame/agree/whatever.
|

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Re: [gentoo-dev] RTC group added to baselayout?

[Bill Kenworthy]

add vmware (readonly ?), chrony (read/write) and (I think) tvtime
(readonly ?, the docs did say to set "sysctl -w
dev.rtc.max-user-freq=1024" manually - I do this in
/etc/conf.d/local.start)

The fix was to change the permissions on /dev/rtc and they shared
happily, but is this a good idea on a multiuse system? - an RTC group
may be better.  Or could it enough to make it readonly for users - this
might actually be more controllable (leave write access with root)?

BillK


On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 14:24, Ioannis Aslanidis wrote:
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> ~From the point of view of security, adding a group wouldn't be bad. One
> never knows if that could be exploitable one day... :)
> 
> Chris White wrote:
> | http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28486#c3
> |
> | This was mentioned here.  Any sort of thoughts on this?  MPlayer deals
> | with /dev/rtc and I found out museseq deals with it as well (in fact,
> | it will crash if it doesn't have access to it...).  I'm sure there may
> | be other programs that deal with the real time clock, so I think it's
> | a good idea.  Feel free to flame/agree/whatever.
> |
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Re: [gentoo-dev] RTC group added to baselayout?

[Paul de Vrieze]

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On Wednesday 18 August 2004 08:52, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> add vmware (readonly ?), chrony (read/write) and (I think) tvtime
> (readonly ?, the docs did say to set "sysctl -w
> dev.rtc.max-user-freq=1024" manually - I do this in
> /etc/conf.d/local.start)

Why not set it in /etc/sysctl.conf?

Paul

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Re: [gentoo-dev] RTC group added to baselayout?

[William Kenworthy]

Coz I never realised it existed ... grumble grumble ...

:)

BillK


On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 19:14, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 August 2004 08:52, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> > add vmware (readonly ?), chrony (read/write) and (I think) tvtime
> > (readonly ?, the docs did say to set "sysctl -w
> > dev.rtc.max-user-freq=1024" manually - I do this in
> > /etc/conf.d/local.start)
> 
> Why not set it in /etc/sysctl.conf?
> 
> Paul


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