Re: There he goes again

From	"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: There he goes again
Date	2024-07-12 21:09 +0200
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On 2024-07-09 17:12, David W. Hodgins wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Jul 2024 06:57:18 -0400, Carlos E. R. 
> <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
>> On 2024-07-09 01:35, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>> On Mon, 8 Jul 2024 02:54:52 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> <snip>
>>>> gparted is a GUI tool intended to be run as root.
>>> And we have seen what happens when it is.
>> That it works perfectly, as designed.
> 
> It increses the risk of things leaking to other user's on the system, if 
> not done
> properly.

!!

> 
> As to running gparted as a regular user ...
> $ ls -l /dev/sd?
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8,  0 Jul  8 20:54 /dev/sda
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 16 Jul  8 20:54 /dev/sdb
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 32 Jul  8 20:54 /dev/sdc
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 48 Jul  8 20:54 /dev/sdd
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 64 Jul  8 20:54 /dev/sde
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 80 Jul  8 20:54 /dev/sdf
> 
> I think member's of the disk group can do it as a regular user, but I 
> have not
> tested it to see if there are other issues.

Having my user belong to group "disk" increases the danger of the user 
doing something it shouldn't.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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