Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Fri, 20 Aug 2004 12:25:45 +0100 |
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On Gwe, 2004-08-20 at 12:51, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > > > You can also erase the drive firmware as a user etc. That's the problem. > > This is definitely not a "hot" problem so there is absolutely no reason to > make incompatible changes in the kernel interface _without_ discussing this > with the most important users before.
It becomes a hot problem they second someone posts the example code to bugtraq.
> On a decently administrated Linux system, only root is able to send SCSI > commands because only root is able to open the apropriate /dev/* entries.
Wrong (as usual)
> cdrecord is designed to be safely installed root and cdrecord is trustworthy - > it does not overwrite the drive's firmware.
Running cdrecord setuid may well be the right approach. It can drop capabilities except CAP_SYS_RAWIO and burn cdroms happily.
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