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Re: Packages not making it into testing



On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 05:49:24PM -0500, Rahul Jain wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 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. 

That's what I was saying we should do. That's what we do with other
special hardware like audio and floppy drives.


Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>



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