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Restrict device ownership to root only. But why?
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NSA's Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 recommands restricting device ownership to root only. So my question is why should we restrict device ownership to root? And what does device ownership mean anyway in Linux?
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Device file ownership means exactly the same thing as ownership of any file; the user owner is allowed access via the user permission bits (e.g. ) and can change the permissions of the file, the group owner via the group permission bits (e.g. ), and…
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