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Re: Problem attempting to use xorriso



On Thu 10 Nov 2016 at 17:05:06 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 11/10/2016 1:52 PM, David Wright wrote:
> >On Thu 10 Nov 2016 at 04:53:47 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
> >
> >>Yes, but not in the context of a sub-project from last few days.
> >>I suspect what I aiming at might look like - the groups and
> >>permission bits set at time partition created, thus avoiding games
> >>with /etc/fstab .
> >>
> >>richard@jessie-defaults:~$
> >>richard@jessie-defaults:~$ ls -l /dev/sd*
> >>brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8,  0 Nov 10 03:35 /dev/sda
> >>brw-rw---- 1 root owl  8,  1 Nov 10 03:35 /dev/sda1
> >>brw-rw-r-- 1 root owl  8,  2 Nov 10 03:35 /dev/sda2
> >>brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8,  3 Nov 10 03:35 /dev/sda3
> >>brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8,  5 Nov 10 03:35 /dev/sda5
> >>brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 16 Nov 10 04:43 /dev/sdb
> >>br--rw-r-- 1 root owl  8, 17 Nov 10 04:43 /dev/sdb1
> >
> >     ↑ is there a purpose behind the missing w ?
> 
> Yes. My rational is in my rather verbose post
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/11/msg00361.html .
> Linux evidently does not do things "my way" [apologies to a fast
> food chain].

Should I take it that last sentence means you are aware root can write
over a file even if the permission is --------- , let alone r-------- ,
so you have no precaution as well as no protection.

Cheers,
David.


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