From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LKZVe-0003kV-O2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:35:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 138E2E0509; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 14:35:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f12.google.com (mail-bw0-f12.google.com [209.85.218.12]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57100E0509 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 14:35:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz5 with SMTP id 5so15999795bwz.10 for ; Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:35:41 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:mail-followup-to:mime-version:content-type :content-disposition:x-homepage:x-operating-system:user-agent; bh=7LiPUmxPv55g3jpdo7VfTRqq5anMOxSNWEncdkpkWDs=; b=Q9JhaRE/6r13bcQ4B4YyZA+W613+NLz4e0DKx3P5OrGboXkqD/W9XToQ6oTcezocvR PXNQ7A1mk0UzWZnFiECFBR8C+qImWZXZZqGPRWBi43a79PNzNojE16fPLkn2l1ZKz+YL 2Obd1PxeYnmipnxdLBOTsjNdbQPY1Dv0JA8zg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:x-homepage:x-operating-system :user-agent; b=Yc0tbpmJqQ65MuCU+DNCpxPDfH3zWh1ITjQAsENSHAmHV9/rxWbYdQ1HSN1kvsLgsY yPRdrRbX0cIhv5un6Jl1W+xINXUOP2LknplO5WrfZNBQW05l4Gm8z2ZgNY9y5lkz+ETX wuJcWWIt3w5HQotqy3U5rfzC6GFQ3qtCIpimI= Received: by 10.103.175.8 with SMTP id c8mr8286221mup.117.1231338734543; Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:32:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost ([151.80.128.171]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm46850922mup.40.2009.01.07.06.32.10 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:32:13 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 15:29:56 +0100 From: Momesso Andrea To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Permissions of files in /sys/ Message-ID: <20090107142956.GB5477@revolver> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="U+BazGySraz5kW0T" Content-Disposition: inline X-Homepage: http://topperh.blogspot.com X-Operating-System: Gentoo Linux User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: a303be61-1d1e-4751-9f63-494eecc0c9a0 X-Archives-Hash: 3f6ec134abe47c0859a68c5eb0363ce7 --U+BazGySraz5kW0T Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline I'd like to make the file /sys/class/backlight/asus-laptop/brightness writeable for users, so that I don't need to be root anymore to change the brightness. Of course I can chown or chmod ot in local.start but I'm asking if there is a cleaner way. Also, are there any security risks on changing permissions on /sys files? TopperH =========================== Momesso Andrea http://topperh.blogspot.com =========================== --U+BazGySraz5kW0T Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAklkvGQACgkQTusdC+HYtiJh5wCg5JaYH/373XaYpBm407Zq/jVM RKoAniTxyPRDIG3uKxCpN/4LnjFO+edn =n6hZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --U+BazGySraz5kW0T--