From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267602AbUHTHq2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2004 03:46:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263664AbUHTHq1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2004 03:46:27 -0400 Received: from acheron.informatik.uni-muenchen.de ([129.187.214.135]:62084 "EHLO acheron.informatik.uni-muenchen.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267633AbUHTHqF (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2004 03:46:05 -0400 Message-ID: <4125AC3B.8060707@bio.ifi.lmu.de> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 09:46:03 +0200 From: Frank Steiner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (X11/20040503) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox Cc: 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> <4124A024.nail7X62HZNBB@burner> <4124BA10.6060602@bio.ifi.lmu.de> <1092925942.28353.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1092925942.28353.5.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 Alan Cox wrote: > On Iau, 2004-08-19 at 15:32, Frank Steiner wrote: > >>What a stupid claim. When I call cdrecord on SuSE 9.1, I can burn CDs and >>DVDs as normal user, without root permissions, without suid, without ide-scsi, >>using /dev/hdc as device. >> >>And this just works fine. So where's the problem? > > > You can also erase the drive firmware as a user etc. That's the problem. Hmm, but that's not a problem specific to the SuSE versions, is it? Joerg was claiming that SuSE release "defective" versions that impact his reputation. And I can't see that, because the versions shipped with at least 7.3, 9.0 and 9.1 just work fine (that's the versions I used). The security thing and the problems with 2.6.8.1 keeping users from burning (I have my set patched in now to allow users burning again, nor sure if it is safe...) is a general issue as far as I understand, and nothing SuSE specific. Please correct me if I'm wrong! cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049