Re: initramfs programs (was [RFC] klibc requirements)

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <[e-mail]>
By author:    "Eric S. Raymond" <[e-mail]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Matthew Kirkwood <[e-mail]>:
> > > The underlying problem is that dmidecode needs access to kmem, and I
> > > can't assume that the person running my configurator will be root.
> > 
> > But you can "su -c" (also sudo, I suppose).  If that person
> > doesn't have root, then building a kernel isn't going to do
> > them much good.
> 
> We've been over this already.  No, the configurator user should *not* have
> to su at any point before actual kernel installation.  Bad practice, 
> no doughnut.
> 

We have also been over the fact that dmidecode, if written
appropriately, could be setuid, or call a "dmicat" setuid program.
This is a dmidecode implementation detail.

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