[OLPC Security] SuperUser permission for the Driver??

[Jay Sulzberger]

On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:

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> Deepak Saxena wrote:
> | I agree with Paul that we need to have a solution to these
> | cases iff we want to support running arbitrary software and
> | hw combinations on the XO. The other option is to limit the
> | scope of the system to a very specific set of sw and hw,
> | treating the XO as embedded education appliance instead of
> | a general-purpose laptop device, which I don't think
> | we want to do.
>
> That is _precisely_ what I want to do.
>
> OLPC's goal is to distribute XOs to the poorest children in the world.
> That means that in the category of electronics, the great majority will
> have the XO and nothing else.  Peripherals are a rarity, an edge case.
>
> There is a planned design to allow the user to grant extra privileges to
> different Activities, but those privileges will probably never extend to
> loading arbitrary kernel modules.  I have no problem declaring that anyone
> who is modifying the kernel is a "developer", and should therefore get a
> devkey and call modprobe themselves.
>
> - --Ben

Yes.

oo--JS.


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