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Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:54:09 +0200
From: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>
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Subject: Re: sade root only
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Rink Springer wrote:
> Hi Dominic,
> 
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:51:04AM +0200, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
>> Certain md and da devices (usb-sticks, encrypted images) on my
>> systems are owned by certain users, which I want to be able to use
>> sade to partition their private partitions, disks, whatever.
> 
> FWIW, you currently can't use sade and/or sysinstall to partition md(4)
> devices - I have a patch available to resolve this, but never got around
> to committing it.
> 
> If there is interest in it, let me know.
> 
> Regards,
> 

Well, since this is one of my intended uses, sure I'm interested.
However, I don't see how this could be useful to me without the
ability to run sade as a user.