Subject: Re: OK to allow raw SCSI requests on tapes?
To: Matthias Drochner <drochner@zelux6.zel.kfa-juelich.de>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/17/1998 14:09:09
On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 12:58:48PM +0200, Matthias Drochner wrote:
> I think the securelevel should not apply to this.
> The tape access does not affect overall system
> security as eg a disk does. Unless you have a file system
> mounted from tape... Is this still supposed to work?

And unless you have a full backup on the tape and someone can read
it back and get /etc/master.passwd, perhaps?

  -jm