Re: suid root

[Michael Soulier <msoulier@storm.ca>]

On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:

> a better way to go is adding yourself to group floppy, then you can
> read and write /dev/fd0.  this is less of a risk then making random
> binaries suid.  
> 
> sudo as someone else mentioned is also probably safer.  
> 
> just don't add yourself to group `disk' ;-)

	Adding myself to group floppy _is_ a better solution. Then I can
decide who can do those kind of operations and who can't. The multitude of
groups set up in Debian is quite cool. 
	If I add myself to group disk, it'd be just like being back on
windoze! :)

	Mike

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