Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: ide-cd problems | | From | Alan Cox <> | | Date | Thu, 05 Aug 2004 22:02:27 +0100 |
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On Iau, 2004-08-05 at 20:35, Jens Axboe wrote: > > exotic commands, and given the choice of having users able to send > > arbitrary commands to the device and not access it at all, I would say > > "not at all" would be good. > > Then don't make your cdrom device accesable.
Lets get rid of root, I mean you don't need root, you could just turn your computer off.
What planet are you living on Jens ?
End users have lots of reasons for being able to access /dev/cdrom directly and also often for groups of users to access a disk directly (for example Oracle databases).
That means any security model that isn't based around things beyond basic device access is flawed.
> Affects all devices that accept SG_IO.
Then if you refuse to fix SG_IO perhaps all device drivers should remove support for it ?
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