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Re: #342455



On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 04:40:22PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 04:29:39PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Raul Miller writes ("Re: #342455"):
> > > I agree that the devmapper default should match other
> > > debian defaults, and vice-versa.

> > If I may try to channel Bastian Blank for a moment:

> > The proposed change to devmapper changes the permissions for all block
> > devices, doesn't it ?  Whereas the other debian defaults vary from one
> > kind of device to another.  For example, floppies are g+w floppy.

> So which devmapper devices are people using on which it would be wrong to
> grant access to the "disk" group?

... follow-up to self: given that crypt-dm sits on top of devmapper, it is
indeed plausible that one would want to prevent members of group disk from
reading the decrypted volume.

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Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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