Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices

Eric Lammerts
2004-08-08T17:31:44Z

On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> The CAM interface (which is from the SCSI standards group)
> usually is implemeted in a way that applications open /dev/cam and
> later supply bus, target and lun in order to get connected
> to any device on the system that talks SCSI.
>
> Let me repeat: If you believe that this is a bad idea, give very
> good reasons.

With this interface, how do you grant non-root users access to a CD
writer, but prevent them from directly accessing a SCSI harddisk?

Eric