Re: [RFC] [SECURITY] floppy driver

Olaf Kirch (okir@monad.swb.de)
Mon, 19 Jul 1999 21:20:24 +0200


On Mon, 19 Jul 1999 19:52:44 BST, Chris Evans wrote:
> I'm a little concerned with a user's ability (with write access to the
> floppy device) to queue raw floppy commands.
>
> I don't have any specific gripe (yet), but are there any objections to
> restricting raw floppy commands to a privileged user?

If you want to be able to format floppies you need raw w access IIRC.

Olaf

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