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

[Thomas Bushnell BSG]

On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 23:48 +0200, Da Zheng wrote:
> 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.

It depends on the permissions on the device node; that's the whole
point.

Thomas