Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices

From: Eric Lammerts
Date: Sun Aug 08 2004 - 12:32:54 EST



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?

Eric
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