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Re: cd and floppy disk use



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Thus spake Chris Metzler:
# No.  Instead of "disk", you meant to say group "cdrom."  Assign users
# to group "cdrom" so that they can access the cdrom device.
# 
# Group "disk" has write access to all the raw disk devices (/dev/hd* and
# /dev/sd*).  Assigning users to group "disk" is both dangerous and a
# security risk.

Sorry.  I may need to change my /dev/hdc group then.

ls -l /dev/cdrom

shows:

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           11 Mar 23 19:23 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/cdrom0

ls -l /dev/cdrom0

shows:

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            8 Mar 27 20:59 /dev/cdrom0 -> /dev/hdc

and

ls -l /dev/hdc

shows:

brw-rw----    1 root     disk      22,   0 Feb  3 07:28 /dev/hdc

This is where I got 'disk' for the group to put users into.  But I see now that
/dev/hd* is group 'disk'.  However, only my /dev/pktcdvd0 (udf packet writing to
CDRW) is group 'cdrom'.  And group 'cdrom' doewn't mention 'disk' and 'disk'
doesn't mention 'cdrom'.  Is this a problem?  Do I need to change something?
This is how Debian set it up for me.

PRINCE
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