Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices

[Alan Cox]

On Iau, 2004-08-19 at 20:19, Mark Lord wrote:
>  >And what do you do the day someone posts "lock IDE drive with random
>  >password as any user" to bugtraq ?
> 
> I should hope that these lines in the driver would prevent such:
> 
>        if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) || !capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO))
>              return -EACCES;

These lines aren't in the prior to 2.6.8.1 SG_IO path...

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