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Comments: In-reply-to Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@clara.net>
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Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:00:08 +0200
From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.org>
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Subject: Re: regular user can destroy disk label?!? 
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Thomas Hurst wrote:
> * Julian H. Stacey (jhs@berklix.org) wrote:
> 
> > Either:
> >   - You made a typo with ar0s2 & meant ad0s2,
> >   - Or you really mean "ar" - man 4 ar reports a comms card !
> 
> ataraid(4) exposes ATA RAID devices as ar%d:
> 
>  -% man 4 ataraid |grep /dev
>       /dev/ar*  ATA RAID device nodes

Thanks Thomas, that explains name then. 

It doesnt affect thoughts on permissions though, unless driver very strange.

Harald,
- If your shell or xterm scroll etc supports logging & you still have
  it, you might check if you really were unprivileged ?
- What's result of your		 cd /dev ; ls -l  . ar0s2 /sbin/bsdlabel

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