On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 15:08 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > But I could imagine it being somewhat disconcerting if I were managing a > > set of common machines, only to find some random user had, for > > instance, changed the times for the next automatic filesystem checks by > > invoking tune2fs -c. > > How could a random user do this? I just tried: > > $ /sbin/tune2fs -c 10 /dev/hda3 > tune2fs 1.40.2 (12-Jul-2007) > /sbin/tune2fs: Permission denied while trying to open /dev/hda3 > Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.
Curious. I was able to make a change like that freely. I notice that my account has been added to group 'disk', which is the group for /dev/hda*. I wonder if that's what gives me permission to change the partitions. Drew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
