Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Jul 1999 20:59:32 +0100 (GMT) | From | Chris Evans <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] [SECURITY] floppy driver |
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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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