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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Let's see now:
> 
> 	brw-rw----    1 root     disk       3,   0 Jan 30  2003 /dev/hda
> 
> would you put people you don't trust with your disk in the "disk" group?
> 
> Right. If you trust somebody enough that you give him write access to the 
> disk, then you might as well trust him enough to do commands on it. 


Yeah, I agree.  I was thinking write access to files on a hard drive, 
not write access to the blkdev itself.

	Jeff