Re: Packages not making it into testing
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 11:57:50PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Doesn't the user have to belong to the relevant group anyway?
> We already control access to things like floppy drives, sound
> cards etc through groups, so cd burning is another good example.
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root cdrom 498300 Nov 23 04:37 /usr/bin/xcdrgtk*
The user does not need to be in group cdrom to use it. This _gives_ any user
access to the raw device.
> Why not su/sudo? Well, that would let the user access files they
> can't normally read. Eg burn other users' home directories on
> to a CD. Also, X authority stuff is messy to transfer between
> users.
I don't see how sgid cdrom will help here. Just make it non-sgid, and if
they're a member of group cdrom, they can burn a cd, period. X authority is
easy, just su, don't su -.
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