Re: parted is ALMOST suitable
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On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 02:41:45PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >>>>>>> *HOWEVER* parted requires root privileges. That is not acceptable.
> >>>>>>> Suggestions?
> >>>>>>> TIA
> > Futzing with partitions is the admin's job.
>
> Could be, but it's not (g)parted's job to enforce these kinds of rules:
> that's what Unix permissions (and Linux's capabilities) are for.
>
> It's OK to add a warning and prompt the user to make sure he really
> means to do that, but there's no point *preventing* the user from
> shooting his own foot with this tool if he can do it with other
> tools anyway.
>
> > fdisk also want's root (or
> > sudo). You want some user poking around in the disk(s)?
>
> BTW, I have a pending bug report around this very same issue:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=439409
>
> Feel free to weight in ;-)
Done. For me "this is the way gparted is designed" sounds so
wrong on many levels that it took me a while to articulate
myself :-)
regards
- -- t
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