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SubjectRe: SG_IO and security
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


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