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SubjectRe: [RFC] [SECURITY] floppy driver

On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Olaf Kirch wrote:

> > I don't have any specific gripe (yet), but are there any objections to
> > restricting raw floppy commands to a privileged user?
>
> If you want to be able to format floppies you need raw w access IIRC.

To format a floppy there are separate ioctl()'s - the raw command ioctl
isn't needed

Chris


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