From: Petri Kaukasoina <kaukasoi@elektroni.ee.tut.fi>
To: Marc Ballarin <Ballarin.Marc@gmx.de>
Cc: Frank Steiner <fsteiner-mail@bio.ifi.lmu.de>,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, jwendel10@comcast.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi
Subject: Re: 2.6.8.1 Mis-detect CRDW as CDROM
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:03:29 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040817130329.GA7800@elektroni.ee.tut.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040817134133.56614674.Ballarin.Marc@gmx.de>
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 01:41:33PM +0200, Marc Ballarin wrote:
> An unpatched cdrecord does not use root privileges to access devices. It
> increases its priority, locks memory and drops privileges before doing
> anything else. According to its author, cdrecord is designed for this mode
> of operation. I don't know if the same is true for growisofs and other
> tools.
> suid has no effect on the issue at hand (provided cdrecord has not
> been modified), it only serves to increase burning reliability.
I guess you are talking about some alpha version. The latest released
unpatched stable version cdrecord 2.00.3 burns ok as suid-root even with
this kind of device access rights:
brw------- 1 root root 22, 0 Jun 9 2002 /dev/hdc
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-17 13:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-15 21:43 John Wendel
2004-08-15 20:53 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-15 23:24 ` John Wendel
2004-08-15 23:10 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-16 12:38 ` Marc Ballarin
2004-08-16 13:03 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-16 14:58 ` Frank Steiner
2004-08-16 17:44 ` Kronos
2004-08-16 17:57 ` Marc Ballarin
2004-08-16 19:09 ` Marc Ballarin
2004-08-16 19:33 ` Kai Makisara
2004-08-16 21:12 ` Marc Ballarin
2004-08-17 6:32 ` Frank Steiner
2004-08-17 11:11 ` Andreas Messer
2004-08-17 15:59 ` [PATCH] " Andreas Messer
2004-08-17 17:27 ` [RFC] list of SCSI commands Marc Ballarin
2004-08-17 17:56 ` Andreas Messer
2004-08-17 19:43 ` [PATCH] 2.6.8.1 Mis-detect CRDW as CDROM Martin Schlemmer
2004-08-18 8:47 ` Frank Steiner
2004-08-18 9:09 ` Frank Steiner
2004-08-18 9:50 ` [RFC] New security model for scsi_cmd_ioctl Andreas Messer
2004-08-18 12:01 ` [PATCH] 2.6.8.1 Mis-detect CRDW as CDROM Frank Steiner
2004-08-18 12:20 ` Marc Ballarin
2004-08-18 12:27 ` Frank Steiner
2004-08-18 14:08 ` Frank Steiner
2004-08-17 11:29 ` Christer Weinigel
2004-08-17 11:59 ` Christer Weinigel
2004-08-17 13:25 ` Marc Ballarin
2004-08-17 11:41 ` Marc Ballarin
2004-08-17 13:03 ` Petri Kaukasoina [this message]
2004-08-17 14:27 ` [PATCH] update defines in cdrom.h Marc Ballarin
2004-08-17 15:19 ` [PATCH] update + fix " Marc Ballarin
2004-08-16 13:32 ` 2.6.8.1 Mis-detect CRDW as CDROM Petri Kaukasoina
2004-08-16 7:40 Wolfgang Scheicher
2004-08-16 15:17 ` Adam Jones
[not found] <2tB3a-7rU-19@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <2tOWp-cF-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <2tQlC-1kl-27@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-08-16 15:06 ` Wolfgang Scheicher
2004-08-16 15:10 ` Frank Steiner
2004-08-16 15:33 Giacomo Perale
2004-08-17 11:14 Joerg Schilling
2004-08-17 11:47 ` Andreas Messer
2004-08-17 13:12 Joerg Schilling
2004-08-17 13:48 ` Andreas Messer
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