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

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On Wed, 2015-12-16 at 22:09 +0100, Anders Andersson wrote:
> 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?

I don't think systemd uses the groups at all. Usb sticks are are in the
disk group here too, and I have no trouble writing to them as a normal
user.

There's a (quite long) bug report about this here, but it seems to be
for systems without systemd:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=751892

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Sven Arvidsson
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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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