From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268971AbUHULGr (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Aug 2004 07:06:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268970AbUHULGr (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Aug 2004 07:06:47 -0400 Received: from AGrenoble-152-1-16-117.w82-122.abo.wanadoo.fr ([82.122.14.117]:2946 "EHLO awak.dyndns.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268972AbUHULGR convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Aug 2004 07:06:17 -0400 Subject: Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices From: Xavier Bestel To: David Greaves Cc: Kyle Moffett , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Alan Cox , fsteiner-mail@bio.ifi.lmu.de, kernel@wildsau.enemy.org, diablod3@gmail.com, B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl In-Reply-To: <4126F27B.9010107@dgreaves.com> 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> <4124D042.nail85A1E3BQ6@burner> <1092938348.28370.19.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4125FFA2.nail8LD61HFT4@burner> <101FDDA2-F2F5-11D8-8DEC-000393ACC76E@mac.com> <4126F27B.9010107@dgreaves.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Message-Id: <1093086364.7421.16.camel@nomade> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 13:06:05 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Le sam 21/08/2004 à 08:58, David Greaves a écrit : > Can someone explain why it isn't anyone with _write_ access to the device? > Surely it's better to drop a user into a group or setgid a program? > > If I have write access to a device then I can wipe it's media anyway. > Is there something I'm missing? If you have write access to a single partition only, you could always screw the entire disk (and with firmware upload, it's really totally screwed). Xav