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From: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org>
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Subject: Re: There he goes again
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2024 11:12:06 -0400
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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.

Regards, Dave Hodgins