OpenMoko Initialization

Rodolphe Ortalo rodolphe.ortalo at free.fr
Tue Mar 11 19:03:29 CET 2008


I fully support this position!
Is it realistic to try to do something in this direction right now?

Rodolphe

PS: To be honest, as a security officer at work, I may be (a little!)
biaised.

Le mardi 11 mars 2008 à 10:57 +0100, Francesco Albanese a écrit :
> Hello,
> it's a couple of weeks that I've started to have a look to OpenMoko.
> Now I am wondering why everything runs with root privileges. Has
> anybody taken into account the possibility to revert the standard
> account isolation model ? What is not going to work anymore if I start
> an instance of the graphical environment as unprivileged user   ?
> It is trivial to say that having all the programs running at maximum
> privilege level could be very troublesome in the future.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 




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