The following reply was made to PR kern/36661; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Juan RP <juan@xtrarom.org>
To: Allen Briggs <briggs@netbsd.org>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp
Subject: Re: kern/36661: any users can modify envsys setting
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:21:15 +0200

 On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:19:46 -0400
 Allen Briggs <briggs@netbsd.org> wrote:
 
 > I'm sorry no one answered.  I don't know about root-only, but it
 > makes sense for the "set" operations to be governed by write access
 > to the device.  That is consistent with the BSD/*nix model.
 > 
 > Reading should be governed by read (FREAD) access to the device,
 > modifying/setting/writing should be governed by write (FWRITE)
 > access.
 
 No problem, I'm going to fix this in a few minutes.
 
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