Re: What operations in store_parsed_open() need the privilege?

[Thomas Bushnell BSG]

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