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SubjectRE: devfs again, (was RE: USB device allocation)
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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