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Date:      Sun, 26 Jan 2003 17:23:10 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        phk@freebsd.org
Cc:        cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/disklabel disklabel.c 
Message-ID:  <200301262223.h0QMNAwP078306@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <11294.1043619426@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <200301262214.h0QMEfiV078221@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <11294.1043619426@critter.freebsd.dk>

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<<On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 23:17:06 +0100, phk@freebsd.org said:

> I don't think so in practice, but if we want to put an suser()
> check there to be pure it's ok with me.

> critter phk> ls -l /dev/ad0
> crw-r-----  1 root  operator    4,   1 Jan 25 23:13 /dev/ad0

Typically, on bigger machines, users (whether human or automated)
whose job is to run backups are put into group operator.  Read access
to the disk should not automatically confer on someone the ability to
modify it.

-GAWollman


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