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From: Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Running "hddtemp" with plain user rights
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 14:13:21
Message-Id: 43D24009.3070702@mid.email-server.info
1 Hello!
2
3 I'd like to be able to run "hddtemp" <http://www.guzu.net/linux/hddtemp.php>
4 with "plain" user rights - ie. not with root
5 rights. What's to be done, so that this is
6 possible?
7
8 alexander@blatt ~ $ LC_ALL=C hddtemp /dev/hda
9 /dev/hda: Permission denied
10 alexander@blatt ~ $ ls -la /dev/hda
11 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 0 21. Jan 09:09 /dev/hda
12 alexander@blatt ~ $ id
13 uid=1000(alexander) gid=100(users)
14 Gruppen=4(adm),6(disk),10(wheel),16(cron),17(console),18(audio),19(cdrom),35(games),80(cdrw),100(users),250(portage),410(plugdev)
15 alexander@blatt ~ $ ls -la `which hddtemp`
16 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27712 21. Jan 08:02 /usr/sbin/hddtemp
17
18 As you can see, I get the error message "Permission
19 denied" when I run "hddtemp /dev/hda". As you can
20 further see, the group disk has read-/write-access on
21 the device file. And lastly, you can see that my user
22 is member of the group "disk".
23
24 Why do I get the Permission denied error message? And
25 what's to be done?
26
27 I do NOT want to set hddtemp set-uid root.
28
29 Thanks a lot,
30
31 Alexander Skwar
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Re: [gentoo-user] Running "hddtemp" with plain user rights Holly Bostick <motub@××××××.nl>