Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices | | From | Xavier Bestel <> | | Date | Sat, 21 Aug 2004 13:06:05 +0200 |
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Le sam 21/08/2004 à 08:58, David Greaves a écrit :
> Can someone explain why it isn't anyone with _write_ access to the device? > Surely it's better to drop a user into a group or setgid a program? > > If I have write access to a device then I can wipe it's media anyway. > Is there something I'm missing?
If you have write access to a single partition only, you could always screw the entire disk (and with firmware upload, it's really totally screwed).
Xav
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