-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 08:39:51PM +0000, Brian wrote: > On Tue 08 Nov 2016 at 14:41:45 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > >>>>>>> *HOWEVER* parted requires root privileges. That is not acceptable. > > >>>>>>> Suggestions? > > >>>>>>> TIA > > > Futzing with partitions is the admin's job. > > > > Could be, but it's not (g)parted's job to enforce these kinds of rules: > > that's what Unix permissions (and Linux's capabilities) are for. > > > > It's OK to add a warning and prompt the user to make sure he really > > means to do that, but there's no point *preventing* the user from > > shooting his own foot with this tool if he can do it with other > > tools anyway. > > Users here get no opportunity to shoot themselves or anyone else in the > foot. Access to raw disks is over my dead body. So I do not understand > your point.
C'mon. Cut the drama. Dead bodies and that. As if "raw disk" were some kind of sacred stuff. In my case they are simple files on disk (disk images). Shall I have to become root every time I have to write a partition table to that? No. I just use fdisk. It's the job of file (device) permissions to ensure that. Or are you going to patch around bash's redirection operator too, to keep "users" from shooting themselves in the foot by issuing echo "mumble" > /dev/sda2 Not really. regards - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlgi4sEACgkQBcgs9XrR2kZqqACfdO/MbOeWhqyJHco4uOlI9l35 2FkAn2FsqBIT+AYMWlqrS52IydW5dgU1 =fTKB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
