On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 08:42 +0200, Neal H. Walfield wrote: > At Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:05:59 -0700, > Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 23:32 +0200, Da Zheng wrote: > > > I know boot fails and gets EPERM when it calls store_parsed_open, but I > > > need to know what operations inside store_parsed_open() fail. Otherwise, > > > I don't know how to fix it. > > > > Boot assumes that it is run as root, and assumes that quite thoroughly. > > You need to have boot simply not even *try* to open such a device. > > I don't understand why boot should somehow override the user in this > regard. It is perfectly legitimate, I think, to give a non-root user > access to, e.g., /dev/hda1. In that case, why should boot not even > try to open the device?
Yes, I think of course you're right. Thomas
