Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices
From: Xavier Bestel (xavier.bestel_at_free.fr)
Date: 08/21/04
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To: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 13:06:05 +0200
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
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