From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 21 14:12:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA11695 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 14:12:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peak.mountin.net (peak.mountin.net [207.227.119.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA11688 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 14:12:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeff-ml@mountin.net) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by peak.mountin.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id QAA22995; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 16:11:36 -0500 (CDT) Received: from klinzhai-1.isdn.mke.execpc.com(169.207.65.129) by peak.mountin.net via smap (V1.3) id sma022990; Wed Oct 21 16:11:18 1998 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19981021160643.010d94a4@207.227.119.2> X-Sender: jeff-ml@207.227.119.2 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 16:06:43 -0500 To: "Kenneth D. Merry" From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: 3.0 missing some docs? Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199810211951.NAA11348@panzer.plutotech.com> References: <3.0.3.32.19981021142537.00fe1ff4@207.227.119.2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. 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