Re: RedHat 4.x/5.0 /dev permissions

[darren.moffat () UK Sun COM (Darren J Moffat - Sun UK - Consultant Engineer)]

> First one
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> Any user can read data from (even not mounted) floppy using


The best solution to this IMHO is to use allocatable removalble
media devices, as Sun has done with Trusted Solaris and the Solaris
BSM module.

Take a look at the scripts I have written to do this under Linux
(should actually work for anything that runs Perl)
at http://www.xarius.demon.co.uk/software/devalloc


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Darren J Moffat