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Re: What operations in store_parsed_open() need the privilege?
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Neal H. Walfield |
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Re: What operations in store_parsed_open() need the privilege? |
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Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:42:55 +0200 |
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At Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:05:59 -0700,
Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 23:32 +0200, Da Zheng wrote:
> > I know boot fails and gets EPERM when it calls store_parsed_open, but I
> > need to know what operations inside store_parsed_open() fail. Otherwise,
> > I don't know how to fix it.
>
> Boot assumes that it is run as root, and assumes that quite thoroughly.
> You need to have boot simply not even *try* to open such a device.
I don't understand why boot should somehow override the user in this
regard. It is perfectly legitimate, I think, to give a non-root user
access to, e.g., /dev/hda1. In that case, why should boot not even
try to open the device?
- What operations in store_parsed_open() need the privilege?, Da Zheng, 2008/08/26
- Re: What operations in store_parsed_open() need the privilege?, Thomas Bushnell BSG, 2008/08/26
- Re: What operations in store_parsed_open() need the privilege?, Da Zheng, 2008/08/26
- Re: What operations in store_parsed_open() need the privilege?, Thomas Bushnell BSG, 2008/08/26
- Re: What operations in store_parsed_open() need the privilege?, Da Zheng, 2008/08/27
- Re: What operations in store_parsed_open() need the privilege?, Thomas Bushnell BSG, 2008/08/27
- Re: What operations in store_parsed_open() need the privilege?, Da Zheng, 2008/08/27
- Re: What operations in store_parsed_open() need the privilege?, Thomas Bushnell BSG, 2008/08/27
- Re: What operations in store_parsed_open() need the privilege?,
Neal H. Walfield <=
- Re: What operations in store_parsed_open() need the privilege?, Thomas Bushnell BSG, 2008/08/28
- Re: What operations in store_parsed_open() need the privilege?, Da Zheng, 2008/08/28
- Re: What operations in store_parsed_open() need the privilege?, Samuel Thibault, 2008/08/28
- Re: What operations in store_parsed_open() need the privilege?, Thomas Bushnell BSG, 2008/08/28
- Re: What operations in store_parsed_open() need the privilege?, olafBuddenhagen, 2008/08/30