From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267310AbUHSTW2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2004 15:22:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267303AbUHSTVA (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2004 15:21:00 -0400 Received: from cpu1185.adsl.bellglobal.com ([207.236.110.166]:29629 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267298AbUHSTUy (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2004 15:20:54 -0400 Message-ID: <4124FD46.8040109@rtr.ca> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 15:19:34 -0400 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Frank Steiner , Joerg Schilling , kernel@wildsau.enemy.org, diablod3@gmail.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices References: <200408041233.i74CX93f009939@wildsau.enemy.org> <4124BA10.6060602@bio.ifi.lmu.de> <1092925942.28353.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200408191800.56581.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> <1092938773.28350.27.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1092938773.28350.27.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >And what do you do the day someone posts "lock IDE drive with random >password as any user" to bugtraq ? I should hope that these lines in the driver would prevent such: if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) || !capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO)) return -EACCES; Cheers -- Mark Lord (hdparm keeper & the original "Linux IDE Guy")