On Sat, 5 May 2007 12:49:54 +0200
Colin Leroy <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This patch changes the led brightness file's permissions to 0666, so that a
> user's MUA can light up the mail LED without needing root permissions.
NAK.
The management of user specific temporary permissions belongs in user
space with a safe "no" default value to stop background daemons doing
silly things.
Take a look at the various pam console management modules (and also beat
people up to get revoke() support into the kernel).
Alan
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