On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 10:00:55PM -0400, Michael Soulier wrote: > > How do you guys feel about SUID root? For example, I'm here using > supermount, finding it mildly annoying that I have to login as root to > format a floppy. Is it against the "Debian way" to SUID root on supermount > and mformat for convenience? Does that cause a major security hole?
a better way to go is adding yourself to group floppy, then you can read and write /dev/fd0. this is less of a risk then making random binaries suid. sudo as someone else mentioned is also probably safer. just don't add yourself to group `disk' ;-) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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