Raul Miller writes ("Re: #342455"):
> On 2/10/06, Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> channelled:
> > The proposed change to devmapper changes the permissions for all block
> > devices, doesn't it ? Whereas the other debian defaults vary from one
> > kind of device to another. For example, floppies are g+w floppy.
>
> The change to devmapper is inconsistent in the context of many groups
> of machines.
Um, are we talking about the same change here ? I'm criticising the
proposed change to the configure script which makes all the block
devices start out g+w disk.
> It's also inconsistent over time on many single machines.
I agree that the current situation is unsatisfactory. But I think (at
the moment, at least) that it should be fixed by adopting Bastian's
code fragments with an appropriate configuration.
> > For changing the `default' by changing the permissions at device
> > creation time at the very least introduces a race, where the device
> > briefly has the default permissions; if the defaults are maximally
> > restrictive then this is OK.
>
> The debian defaults grant permission to an empty group -- one
> which by default has no users -- this is maximally restrictive.
This is rather disingenuous. No-one would be complaining if the disk
group remained empty.
Ian.
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