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Re: Bug#404927: udev believes hardware raid devices are removable and sets the permissions to group floppy



On Jan 05, dann frazier <dannf@debian.org> wrote:

> Can you point me to (or explain) how the floppy group is currently
> defined and how it is differentiated by plugdev?
It's supposed to be used for removable media: floppy disks, memory cards
or USB and firewire hard disks.
(Except optical media, which are owned by group cdrom.)

> For now, I can only suggest adding workarounds for the devices
> identified by Mark in this report - aacraid, ips, and dpt_i2o.
I will need to see sample udevinfo output for each driver, unless
somebody already knows a rule to match them.

> yes, that makes sense - I was only thinking about the security aspect
> of this issue when I asked, since that is what earned this bug such a
> high severity.
Thinking again about this it should not matter for pmount. I am not sure
about HAL, but probably not either.

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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