On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 12:48:26AM +0100, Marcel Kilgus wrote: > Richard Zidlicky wrote: > > NT/MS having stricter access policy than Unix? > > Well, I don't know how that's handled by Unix, but on Windows it's > "The caller must have administrative privileges for the operation to > succeed on a hard disk drive."
In Unix rw access is ruled using normal file permissions, the owner can set permissions (or ownership) for particular blockdevices or partitions to anything. ioctls have different rules. Bye Richard
