Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 16:06:43 -0500 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0 missing some docs? Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19981021160643.010d94a4@207.227.119.2> In-Reply-To: <199810211951.NAA11348@panzer.plutotech.com> References: <3.0.3.32.19981021142537.00fe1ff4@207.227.119.2>
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At 01:51 PM 10/21/98 -0600, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: >How can userland ....what? You answer it below. >If someone cracks root, they can wreak havoc with the passthrough driver. >The disks have the same problem. e.g.: > >dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rda0s1a count=50 bs=1024k > >The stuff about permissions in the pass(4) man page is basically to warn >system administrators that granting regular users access to the pass driver >can be potentially dangerous. (just like granting access to disk device >nodes can be dangerous) If they get root, there are plenty of things they *can* do. This is then notable, but trivial. >http://www.freebsd.org/~gibbs/ > >> RTFM'ing man pages isn't fun, since references scatter one to the 4 winds. > >That's the way it goes. <sigh> You page does help me follow them better. Thanks. 8-) >RTFM ("man dpt"). No manual entry for dpt No manual entry for dpt0 Ahhh, yeah (BTDT). FWIW, a find comes with with nada too. Another oversight? Jeff Mountin - Unix Systems TCP/IP networking jeff@mountin.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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