On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 11:35:03AM +0000, Tom Huckstep wrote: > I added myself to the `disk' group because I wanted to be able to play don't do that. > audio CDs. However, I noticed that this gives me write access to all > my hard disk device files. Does this mean I will be able to format > them with fdisk and write arbitary data to them by doing e.g. cat > > /dev/hda? yup, you can freely scribble all over all your drives/partitions. > That would be too much of a risk for my liking, and I don't want to > do a test to see if it is true! its very true, instead you should add yourself to group `cdrom' and run `chgrp cdrom /dev/hdc' or whatever device your CDROM is at. then you will have access to the read only cdrom but nothing else. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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