Garrett D'Amore wrote: > Scott Rotondo wrote: >> Phi Tran wrote: >>>> I'm glad that you've decided to use an existing profile and not add >>>> new authorizations. I just wanted to clarify that these are two >>>> separate decisions. >>>> >>> >>> There was an issue brought up about fdisk which doesn't have an entry >>> in exec_attr. I assume the intention was to not allow regular users to >>> use fdisk or maybe this is a bug. One could call fdisk from format, >>> but I don't think that was a requirement to use fdisk. >>> >>> I think parted and fdisk should be allowed for regular users since >>> these commands could be useful for removable media. These commands can >>> be included with the File System Management profile and given >>> appropriate privileges as suggested previously. >>> >>> I'd like to get any comments to see if there should be a >>> reason that parted should follow fdisk permission handling or if the >>> case should continue with adding parted to the File System Management >>> profile with appropriate privileges. >>> >> >> I think the fact that fdisk is missing from File System Management is >> just a bug. You should add parted to that profile with appropriate >> privileges, and you may want to correct the previous bug by adding >> fdisk too. > > If "Partition Management" is one aspect of "File System Management", > then I agree. It wasn't immediately clear to me that this was the case, > but I also didn't realize you could call fdisk from within format when I > first looked at this. > > -- Garrett >
This issue looks resolved now. I'll file a bug on fdisk. Thanks. Phi
