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Date:      Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:00:08 +0200
From:      "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.org>
To:        Harald Schmalzbauer <h.schmalzbauer@omnisec.de>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: regular user can destroy disk label?!? 
Message-ID:  <200707041300.l64D08og087278@fire.js.berklix.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070704083238.GA80543@voi.aagh.net> 
References:  <200707031127.07413.h.schmalzbauer@omnisec.de> <200707031113.l63BDcZW036403@fire.js.berklix.net> <20070704083238.GA80543@voi.aagh.net>

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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.

Harald,
- If your shell or xterm scroll etc supports logging & you still have
  it, you might check if you really were unprivileged ?
- What's result of your		 cd /dev ; ls -l  . ar0s2 /sbin/bsdlabel

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Julian Stacey. Munich Computer Consultant, BSD Unix C Linux. http://berklix.com
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