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

From: Eric Lammerts (eric_at_lammerts.org)
Date: 08/08/04

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To: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>

    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
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