Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 14:34:25 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Harald Schmalzbauer <h.schmalzbauer@omnisec.de> Subject: Re: regular user can destroy disk label?!? Message-ID: <20070706143347.S18110@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <200707041300.l64D08og087278@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <200707031127.07413.h.schmalzbauer@omnisec.de> <200707031113.l63BDcZW036403@fire.js.berklix.net> <20070704083238.GA80543@voi.aagh.net> <200707041300.l64D08og087278@fire.js.berklix.net>
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On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Thomas Hurst wrote: >> * Julian H. Stacey (jhs@berklix.org) wrote: >> >>> Either: >>> - You made a typo with ar0s2 & meant ad0s2, >>> - Or you really mean "ar" - man 4 ar reports a comms card ! >> >> ataraid(4) exposes ATA RAID devices as ar%d: >> >> -% man 4 ataraid |grep /dev >> /dev/ar* ATA RAID device nodes > > Thanks Thomas, that explains name then. > > It doesnt affect thoughts on permissions though, unless driver very strange. Something people occasional get surprised by is the fact that members of the operator group are given significant access to local disks, etc. Could user account in question have been in the operator group? Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge
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