Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: devfs again, (was RE: USB device allocation) | Date | Sat, 09 Oct 1999 21:25:10 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Stephen Frost <sfrost@ns.snowman.net> said: > On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Shawn Leas wrote: > > From: Horst von Brand [mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl]
> > >> through sudo to manage floppies.
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> > >Also has the quite interesting side effect that "sudo mcopy > > >/etc/shadow a:" does work fine.
> > I don't think we want to complain that devfs is at fault for the fact that > > sudo access can be dangerous.
> So now the kludge of using sudo doesn't work, or at least is less > secure than being able to chown/chmod /dev/fd0... So out goes that idea.
The finer point being that this kind of kludges have nonobvious ramifications. -- Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl Casilla 9G, Viña del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616
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