From owner-cvs-all Sun Jan 26 14:23:13 2003 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AB2737B401; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 14:23:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C0F743F1E; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 14:23:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0QMNAbs078309 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Sun, 26 Jan 2003 17:23:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0QMNAwP078306; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 17:23:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 17:23:10 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200301262223.h0QMNAwP078306@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: phk@freebsd.org Cc: cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/disklabel disklabel.c In-Reply-To: <11294.1043619426@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <200301262214.h0QMEfiV078221@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <11294.1043619426@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < I don't think so in practice, but if we want to put an suser() > check there to be pure it's ok with me. > critter phk> ls -l /dev/ad0 > crw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 1 Jan 25 23:13 /dev/ad0 Typically, on bigger machines, users (whether human or automated) whose job is to run backups are put into group operator. Read access to the disk should not automatically confer on someone the ability to modify it. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message