Incorrect group on /dev/fd0? "disk" vs "floppy"

From	Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Incorrect group on /dev/fd0? "disk" vs "floppy"
Date	2015-12-16 22:20 +0100
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Believe it or not, but I still have a floppy disk drive in my
workstation, and I have to use it occasionally! I just noticed that my
user was not allowed to write to /dev/fd0 even though it belongs to
the group "floppy". I found that /dev/fd0 belongs to the group "disk",
and I don't think it should. Granting a user the ability to write to
floppies is not nearly as dangerous as allowing it to write to
everything in the "disk" group.

The problem is that I don't know enough about the system to know where
to report this. Presumably some component in systemd detects this at
startup. This particular system is running Debian Testing. Can anyone
point me in the right direction?

Kind regards,
Anders

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Incorrect group on /dev/fd0? "disk" vs "floppy" Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com> - 2015-12-16 22:20 +0100
  Re: Incorrect group on /dev/fd0? "disk" vs "floppy" Ulf Volmer <u.volmer@u-v.de> - 2015-12-16 23:10 +0100
  Re: Incorrect group on /dev/fd0? "disk" vs "floppy" Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> - 2015-12-16 23:20 +0100
    Re: Incorrect group on /dev/fd0? "disk" vs "floppy" Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com> - 2015-12-17 01:10 +0100
      Re: Incorrect group on /dev/fd0? "disk" vs "floppy" Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-12-17 20:00 +0100
        Re: Incorrect group on /dev/fd0? "disk" vs "floppy" Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> - 2015-12-17 22:00 +0100
          Re: Incorrect group on /dev/fd0? "disk" vs "floppy" "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2015-12-17 22:40 +0100
          Re: Incorrect group on /dev/fd0? "disk" vs "floppy" Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2015-12-17 23:00 +0100
          Re: Incorrect group on /dev/fd0? "disk" vs "floppy" Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-12-18 11:30 +0100
      Re: Incorrect group on /dev/fd0? "disk" vs "floppy" Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> - 2015-12-17 22:10 +0100

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