Subject: Re: Unprivileged access to devices
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/02/2004 13:22:49
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 08:45:04AM -0600, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
>
> It's very sensible, IMO, to make "/dev/rcd?[ad]" group writable. The
> daily security script will warn about that, unfortunately, and the
As well it should -- plenty of harm can be done by issuing raw SCSI
commands using any device that will take them.
--
Thor Lancelot Simon tls@rek.tjls.com
But as he knew no bad language, he had called him all the names of common
objects that he could think of, and had screamed: "You lamp! You towel! You
plate!" and so on. --Sigmund Freud