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Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: There he goes again Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:09:36 +0200 Lines: 36 Message-ID: <gkb8mkxn8s.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> References: <v69its$3dons$1@dont-email.me> <sG6s8v.B6nB@yahoo.com> <v6ar7b$3ngh6$2@dont-email.me> <v6ci5t$oq$1@dont-email.me> <v6cr5s$1kfb$1@dont-email.me> <leug5rFgsj3U2@mid.individual.net> <v6d3qp$6ida$1@dont-email.me> <lf0rmsFmm0pU7@mid.individual.net> <v6ht4l$12f54$8@dont-email.me> <lf4jceFgleeU1@mid.individual.net> <op.2qndugqla3w0dxdave@hodgins.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 0IHsw5F3kGylqG08KTiIIQPqfrz0QMDhKFx0gPIGoZ8EofMIS/ X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:qLW/j7bv7Tx0PKi84I0oSEt8l9g= sha256:mz4GuIRruiA24ZkpNSqk5Z0ZF0UzLcerBEk89uj2erQ= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: <op.2qndugqla3w0dxdave@hodgins.homeip.net> Bytes: 2367 On 2024-07-09 17:12, David W. Hodgins wrote: > On Tue, 09 Jul 2024 06:57:18 -0400, Carlos E. R. > <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote: >> On 2024-07-09 01:35, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >>> On Mon, 8 Jul 2024 02:54:52 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: > <snip> >>>> gparted is a GUI tool intended to be run as root. >>> And we have seen what happens when it is. >> That it works perfectly, as designed. > > It increses the risk of things leaking to other user's on the system, if > not done > properly. !! > > As to running gparted as a regular user ... > $ ls -l /dev/sd? > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 Jul 8 20:54 /dev/sda > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 16 Jul 8 20:54 /dev/sdb > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 32 Jul 8 20:54 /dev/sdc > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 48 Jul 8 20:54 /dev/sdd > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 64 Jul 8 20:54 /dev/sde > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 80 Jul 8 20:54 /dev/sdf > > I think member's of the disk group can do it as a regular user, but I > have not > tested it to see if there are other issues. Having my user belong to group "disk" increases the danger of the user doing something it shouldn't. -- Cheers, Carlos.