On Mon, 26.01.15 17:07, Topi Miettinen (toiwo...@gmail.com) wrote: > On 01/26/15 12:41, Simon McVittie wrote: > > On 24/01/15 10:09, Topi Miettinen wrote: > >> For example, smartd only needs access to /dev/sd*. > > > > Let me spell that differently: smartd "only" needs the ability to make > > arbitrary filesystem changes, defeating any possible configurable > > security mechanism. > > Not exactly: it only needs read access. Depending on the system, that > could be very different from being able to make arbitrary filesystem > changes.
Sending SMART requests requires the same priviliges as issue direct low-level write requests to my knowledge, hence I'd say simon is right. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel