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Subject: Re: Vendor specific SCSI opcodes
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Llu, 2005-08-15 at 15:34 +0200, Mathieu Fluhr wrote:
> So is there a way to bypass this command verification and to let the
> program work without launching it as root user ?

If there was what would be the point in having a root user. The vendor
specific commands include functionality like "erase firmware" that
simply isn't appropriate to give to unprivileged applications.