Da Zheng, le Thu 28 Aug 2008 23:48:13 +0200, a écrit : > Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > >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. > > > If the non-user can access /dev/hda1, it means he can operate the hda1 > device directly without the help of the file system. > Is the user really allowed to do it? In Linux or other Unix, this kind > of operation is forbidden, I think.
That depends on what is there. If that's where the user can put data, it makes sense to give him full access to the partition instead of imposing a given filesystem. Samuel
