What about suid kioslaves?

[Chris Howells]

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Hi,

On Friday 27 December 2002 20:45, Maurizio Monge wrote:
> I was thinking that floppy:/ audiocd:/ and iso:/ (though
> audiocd coud support also audiocd:/dev/cdrom1, etc without
> to change the main config) could be very good for users,
> but i had to put 666 permission to /dev/cdrom* (ok at home,
> not ok
> where i am sysadmin :-) ).

chown root.cdrom /dev/hdc
chmod g+r /dev/hdc

Add user to cdrom group. Sorted.

> What do you think about root-suid kioslaves for some
> registered devices?

I can't see what it would what standard unix permissions already can, apart 
from opening up more potential security holes.

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