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



On Jan 04, dann frazier <dannf@debian.org> wrote:

>  Mark Salyzyn's reply on LKML suggests that this problem maybe more
> widespread and possibly difficult audit on the kernel side. Could
> we do something like change the default block/removable device to
> GROUP=disk, and override fd type devices w/ GROUP=floppy? This seems
> like a more secure default for etch, given the circumstances.
There is much more than "fd type devices" which need to be removable so
if this needs to be worked around in udev I'd rather use an explicit
list of broken drivers.
BTW, I understand that HAL and maybe pmount will show the same issue.

I also wonder why no other distribution noticed this.

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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