Re: Vendor specific SCSI opcodes

From: Alan Cox
Date: Mon Aug 15 2005 - 09:15:22 EST


On Llu, 2005-08-15 at 15:34 +0200, Mathieu Fluhr wrote:
> So is there a way to bypass this command verification and to let the
> program work without launching it as root user ?

If there was what would be the point in having a root user. The vendor
specific commands include functionality like "erase firmware" that
simply isn't appropriate to give to unprivileged applications.


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