Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Oct 1999 19:30:35 -0400 (EDT) | From | Stephen Frost <> | Subject | RE: devfs again, (was RE: USB device allocation) |
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On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Shawn Leas wrote:
> From: Horst von Brand [mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl] > Subject: Re: devfs again, (was RE: USB device allocation) > > >> through sudo to manage floppies. > > >"sudo mdir a:" is exactly as easy to use as "mdir a:". Dunno if something > >like "sudo mcopy a:somepkg.tar.gz - | tar zxvf -" works, perhaps it does. > > >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.
Stephen
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