[plug] Need help with grip under SuSE 8.1

[Andrew Furey]

> Yes, it is. Points to /dev/hdb whose permissions are
> somewhat "more restrictive" rwx for owner who is
> root, and nothing for anybody else. Group is disk
> (IIRC).
> 
> D'you suggest I update the group permissions and add
> the users to the group, or just give rwx permissions
> to world + dog?

One or the other, I should think. There are security
concerns with either option, however IMHO the latter
is safer.

Consider the fact that generally, the hd[a-d] devices
(ie. your hard disk) are also group-owned by disk, so
if you add your users to that group, they will be able
to access (and write to, most likely) your direct
disk. Not the safest thing to do...

I prefer instead to simply give permissions on that
device. This is assuming, of course, that you can
trust everyone who has physical access to your CDROM
(if they had physical access they could do a lot more
damage if they wanted).

Naturally you may not want to do that on a production
server, but you shouldn't really be using grip on such
a machine :)

Andrew

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