Re: sys-apps/pcsc-lite needs to access /sys

Isn't there any mount option that you can pass so that all members of
a certain group can still access sysfs? Perhaps "gid="?

Wkr,
  Sven Vermeulen

On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Luis Ressel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> I'm currently experimenting with OpenPGP smartcards. For those, I
> need sys-apps/pcsc-lite, which features a daemon (pcscd). This daemon
> has its own user and doesn't run with root permissions. However, it
> needs to access some files in /sys which are only accessible by root
> due to GRKERNSEC_SYSFS_RESTRICT.
>
> I went with the following solution:
> chown root:pcscd /usr/sbin/pcscd
> chmod 0710 /usr/sbin/pcscd
> filecap /usr/sbin/pcscd dac_read_search
>
> Should I just propose the maintainer to add this to the ebuild
> (conditional on a "hardened" USE flag), or would another course of
> action be preferred?
>
>
> Regards,
> Luis Ressel
>
>
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