Re: Group for /dev/cdrom

To: Radim Gelner <radim.gelner@siemens.at>
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Subject: Re: Group for /dev/cdrom
From: Jacob Jovelou <jacob@Amadeus.Katedral.SE>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 14:12:39 +0000 (UTC)
Message-id: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.4.10.10003211411310.24226-100000@Amadeus.Katedral.SE>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.4.21.0003041907000.207-100000@pc8343.gud.siemens.at>

On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Radim Gelner wrote:

> 
> On my system, the symlink /dev/cdrom is pointing to /dev/hdb. /dev/hdb is
> owned by root, group disk. When I want to allow users to play CDs using
> cdcd, can I change the group for /dev/hdb to cdrom or is there some
> security threat?

No. I can't think of any evil tricks using /dev/hdb and im pretty sure you
trust your users :)

> Thanks
> 
> Radim
> 
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