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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: ssuominen@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] useless set*id binaries
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 08:32:03
Message-Id: 20120128093227.14d208f4@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] useless set*id binaries by Samuli Suominen
1 On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:07:45 +0200
2 Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On 01/28/2012 02:41 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
5 > > On Friday 27 January 2012 19:18:07 Samuli Suominen wrote:
6 > >> On 01/28/2012 02:14 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
7 > >>> along these lines, why is cdrtools set*id ? if we have a "cdrom"
8 > >>> group, and we assign our cdroms/dvdroms to that group, then we
9 > >>> already have access control in place and can skip the set*id.
10 > >>
11 > >> cdrtools can't probe the drives without the binary being setuid,
12 > >> or the user belonging to the 'disk' group (and even that is not
13 > >> enough in some cases if the permissions vary)
14 > >
15 > > the drives are owned by the "cdrom" group and have group +rw. so
16 > > if the user is in the "cdrom" group, why can't they probe the
17 > > drives ?
18 > >
19 > > "disk" owns the non-removable hard drives.
20 > >
21 > > $ ls -l /dev/sr0 /dev/sg0 /dev/sg6
22 > > crw-rw---- 1 root disk 21, 0 Jan 6 23:07 /dev/sg0
23 > > crw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 21, 6 Jan 6 23:07 /dev/sg6
24 > > brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 11, 0 Jan 17 22:28 /dev/sr0
25 > > -mike
26 >
27 > i dont know why, but it does probe also non-removable disks... it
28 > probes per bus, iirc
29 >
30 > you can try it easily yourself:
31 >
32 > ssuominen@null ~ $ cdrecord -scanbus
33
34 Does user actually need to be able to do this? Doesn't passing dev=...
35 directly work?
36
37 --
38 Best regards,
39 Michał Górny

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