On 8/19/07, Damir Perisa <damir.perisa@solnet.ch> wrote:
Saturday 18 August 2007, Jürgen Hötzel wrote: | Whats wrong with creating your own custom rules? There is no | universal setup appropriate for all users. I think the default | setting is OK for most users: NVRAM can also store bios passwords. | Adding a new group would mean ".pacnew merging" again for a group | most of us don't need.
custom rules are nice if needed. but if there is a need for a rule by more than one person (e.g. all thinkpad users), it should be already there as a hint.
by my knowledge you cannot specify an override to rules in udev.rules so either you change it (and addapt changes from .pacnew files ;) ) or you use an override that is out of udev (e.g. in rc.local you can change permissions with chmod). i know from several people workarounds to the "make nvram readable to the user" but i'd like to somehow make it more unified.
i didn't know that bios passwds are stored in nvram in plain. if so, we should definitely make nvram device only readable by root and a group called nvram. users who need then readability of nvram can be added to this group.
any objections to the group nvram solution?
- D
I personally like Arch and the minimal number of groups we have by default. This seems unnecessary and non-KISS to me for something I'd never use so don't want to be bothered with either. -Dan