regular user can destroy disk label?!?

Julian H. Stacey jhs at berklix.org
Wed Jul 4 13:00:33 UTC 2007


Thomas Hurst wrote:
> * Julian H. Stacey (jhs at berklix.org) wrote:
> 
> > Either:
> >   - You made a typo with ar0s2 & meant ad0s2,
> >   - Or you really mean "ar" - man 4 ar reports a comms card !
> 
> ataraid(4) exposes ATA RAID devices as ar%d:
> 
>  -% man 4 ataraid |grep /dev
>       /dev/ar*  ATA RAID device nodes

Thanks Thomas, that explains name then. 

It doesnt affect thoughts on permissions though, unless driver very strange.

Harald,
- If your shell or xterm scroll etc supports logging & you still have
  it, you might check if you really were unprivileged ?
- What's result of your		 cd /dev ; ls -l  . ar0s2 /sbin/bsdlabel

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