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

Mark Lord
2004-08-19T19:22:28Z

>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
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Mark Lord
(hdparm keeper & the original "Linux IDE Guy")