Re: ide-cd problems

From: Alan Cox
Date: Thu Aug 05 2004 - 17:33:30 EST


On Iau, 2004-08-05 at 06:40, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Ok, that is definitely more acceptable. But then it should be done to
> CDROM_SEND_PACKET as well, and we risk breaking programs doing so (ie
> cdrecord run by user currently).

Definitely. Irrespective of any questions like filtering commands having
/dev device access allow you to compromise the entire system is not a
good model. CAP_SYS_RAWIO is the capability for "can do anything" so
seems appropriate here.


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