Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Aug 2004 13:13:50 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: SG_IO and security |
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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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