On 08/04/2011 16:43, Christopher Hilton wrote:
Should a normal user be able to successfully:$ gmirror remove /dev/mirror/gm0 /dev/ad6 Or is this something that's just unlocked because I haven't mounted the drive yet? $ uname -a FreeBSD deathstar.example.com 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #1: Wed Apr 6 13:09:37 EDT 2011 root@dagobah:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 $ id uid=1001(chris) gid=1001(chris) groups=1001(chris),0(wheel),5(operator),1000(users)
It is because of the "operator" group. Normal users which are not in this groups would not be able to do it.
If a user can communicate with the device (i.e. has at least "reads" rights to it), he can send GEOM commands to it. The operator group has read permissions by default:
lara:~> ll /dev/mirror/ total 0 crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 150 8 Apr 16:55 bla _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
