Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 8 Aug 2004 13:31:41 -0400 (EDT) | From | Eric Lammerts <> | Subject | Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices |
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On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Joerg Schilling wrote: > The CAM interface (which is from the SCSI standards group) > usually is implemeted in a way that applications open /dev/cam and > later supply bus, target and lun in order to get connected > to any device on the system that talks SCSI. > > Let me repeat: If you believe that this is a bad idea, give very > good reasons.
With this interface, how do you grant non-root users access to a CD writer, but prevent them from directly accessing a SCSI harddisk?
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