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| From | <tomas@tuxteam.de> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: parted is ALMOST suitable |
| Date | 2016-11-09 11:30 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <sByiK-62n-29@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 10:12:13AM +0000, Brian wrote: > On Wed 09 Nov 2016 at 09:48:01 +0100, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 08:39:51PM +0000, Brian wrote: > > > On Tue 08 Nov 2016 at 14:41:45 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > > > > > >>>>>>> *HOWEVER* parted requires root privileges. That is not acceptable. > > > > >>>>>>> Suggestions? > > > > >>>>>>> TIA > > > > > 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 I do not understand > > > your point. > > > > C'mon. Cut the drama. Dead bodies and that. > > It's a turn of phrase. Sometimes used with a touch of humour. > > > As if "raw disk" were some kind of sacred stuff. In my case they are > > simple files on disk (disk images). Shall I have to become root every > > time I have to write a partition table to that? No. I just use fdisk. > > > > It's the job of file (device) permissions to ensure that. Or are you > > going to patch around bash's redirection operator too, to keep "users" > > from shooting themselves in the foot by issuing > > > > echo "mumble" > /dev/sda2 > > > > Not really. > > That gives "-bash: /dev/sda2: Permission denied" for me with a fixed > disk. It's the same for a removable disk. The system came like that. Hopefully. But that's not because bash checks that (as parted is). It's because the permissions on the device file are set right! IOW, it's not the application's job (bash or parted), it's the OS's job (with the sysadmin's help) to check access permissions. BTW it's very easy to fool the application itself (and this migh be a perverse "solution" to Richard's problem). Just run gparted under fakeroot. It won't convey you read/write permissions you don't have, but it will fool gparted to think it's running as root: tomas@rasputin:~$ whoami tomas tomas@rasputin:~$ fakeroot whoami root tomas@rasputin:~$ So try running "fakeroot gparted" -- that might help. No need for elevated permissions :-) Fakeroot is in the like-named package. Regards - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlgi+f8ACgkQBcgs9XrR2kbsNgCggZ+IxtEt3EomY0RhA+erYApz f2UAn3Big3UUWWJ7ZWhAG184NCu7EPvm =YNug -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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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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