[4375] in RedHat Linux List
Re: ide cd-rom changers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miguel Avillez)
Thu Nov 14 13:29:55 1996
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 18:20:53 +0000 (WET)
From: Miguel Avillez <pancho@galaxy.ce.uevora.pt>
To: "Sheldon E. Newhouse" <sen1@math.msu.edu>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.95.961114100921.4432A-100000@chaos>
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Well if you-re afraid create a group that has permissions for reading the
device /dev/hdc
then atach the users you trust to that group. so only some trusted
persons will have access to the cdrom. Thats it!
and you do not need to worry about security problems.
miguel
On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Sheldon E. Newhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Miguel Avillez wrote:
>
> > Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 14:58:45 +0000 (WET)
> > From: Miguel Avillez <pancho@galaxy.ce.uevora.pt>
> > To: "Sheldon E. Newhouse" <sen1@math.msu.edu>
> > Cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
> > Subject: Re: ide cd-rom changers
> >
> > why dont you chmod a+r /dev/hdc ? therefore you would prevent them of
> > writing.
> >
> > or do it only for a group of users you trust.
> >
> This works, but are there any security risks?
>
> As a further point of curiousity, all devices /dev/hd*
> are given the permissions
>
> brw-rw----
>
> Is there any reason why they should not be given
>
> brw-rw-r--
>
> Thanks,
>
> -sen
>
>
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