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| From | Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: parted is ALMOST suitable |
| Date | 2016-11-09 00:20 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <sBnQm-7DS-7@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | (4 earlier) <sATSh-4Pz-15@gated-at.bofh.it> <sBj0m-4ko-43@gated-at.bofh.it> <sBjto-4Ab-41@gated-at.bofh.it> <sBkSt-5IO-17@gated-at.bofh.it> <sBlvb-5XM-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
>> > Futzing with partitions is the admin's job.
>> Could be, but it's not (g)parted's job to enforce these kinds of rules:
>> that's what Unix permissions (and Linux's capabilities) are for.
>> It's OK to add a warning and prompt the user to make sure he really
>> means to do that, but there's no point *preventing* the user from
>> shooting his own foot with this tool if he can do it with other
>> tools anyway.
> Users here get no opportunity to shoot themselves or anyone else in the
> foot. Access to raw disks is over my dead body.
So your users don't have access rights to the raw disks?
Great! then (g)parted doesn't need to check anything since the kernel
will do that already.
> So I do not understand your point.
The fact that it checks if the user is UID 0 is either useless (because
the user doesn't have write access to the device anyway, as should
usually be the case for the real physical devices connected to the
machine) or annoying (because it doesn't give any extra security since
the user can shoot himself in the foot with any number of other tools
anyway).
It costs extra code with at best no benefit.
Stefan
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parted is ALMOST suitable Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-07 13:20 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Felipe Salvador <felipe.salvador@gmail.com> - 2016-11-07 13:30 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-07 13:40 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-07 14:00 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-07 14:20 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-07 15:00 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-07 15:50 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-07 16:10 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-11-07 17:30 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Felipe Salvador <felipe.salvador@gmail.com> - 2016-11-07 15:30 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-11-07 16:20 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Aldo Maggi <aldomaggi@katamail.com> - 2016-11-07 18:20 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Felipe Salvador <felipe.salvador@gmail.com> - 2016-11-07 19:00 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-11-08 19:10 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Glenn English <ghe2001@gmail.com> - 2016-11-08 19:40 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2016-11-08 21:10 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-08 21:50 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2016-11-09 00:20 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-09 18:40 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-09 21:40 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-09 21:50 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-09 22:20 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-09 09:50 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-09 11:20 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-09 11:30 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-09 11:50 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-09 12:10 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-09 17:10 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-09 15:20 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-09 20:50 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-09 21:40 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-09 21:10 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-11-10 01:20 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-10 10:10 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-09 19:30 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-09 21:40 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2016-11-08 22:10 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-11-09 16:00 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-09 09:40 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-07 16:30 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-07 17:10 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Felipe Salvador <felipe.salvador@gmail.com> - 2016-11-07 18:50 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-07 20:20 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-11-08 00:50 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-08 01:40 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2016-11-08 03:50 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-08 12:00 +0100
Correction - Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-08 12:20 +0100
Re: Correction - Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-08 20:30 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-11-08 13:50 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-08 20:10 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Frank <zuiderduin@gmx.com> - 2016-11-07 13:30 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2016-11-07 13:40 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-07 13:50 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-07 14:30 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-07 15:10 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-07 15:20 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-11-07 15:30 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-07 15:40 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-07 17:00 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-11-07 17:10 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2016-11-07 17:20 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-07 15:30 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-11-07 15:40 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-07 16:10 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2016-11-07 18:00 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-08 10:20 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-11-07 21:10 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-08 01:00 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-08 12:20 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-11-11 15:40 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-11 17:30 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-11-11 18:10 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-11 18:40 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-11-07 15:10 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-11-07 15:10 +0100
Re: parted is ALMOST suitable rhkramer@gmail.com - 2016-11-07 15:00 +0100
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