Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Jul 2000 10:39:57 -0700 (PDT) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: disk2brick.c |
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It is a major slap but you get full access to destroy as ROOT if you enable an option.
Follow the thread to see how the security exploit is depolyed.
Cheers,
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Jacques Richer wrote:
> Everyone on the "trash disk as root" thread seems to be > looking at this as a security issue. It is possible to > consider this as a usability issue as well. This may be > naive, but is it possible for an administrator to attempt to > set parameters incorrectly and trash the disk _without_ an > intent to cause damage. I know that in my own salad (read > green) days as an admin, I occasionally got slapped for > putting my fingers in the wrong place - and this could be a > major size slap :-) > > Jacques Richer >
Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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