On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 01:03:34PM +0200, Matthias Saou wrote: > I guess it can be summed up into two questions : > - Is there a need for a group to have write access to disks? > - Is there a need for a group to have read only access to disks? > > If the answers are no and yes respectively, then the change makes sense. > Seems to me like it does dump-wise. And I can't find any case where someone > other than root would need raw write access to a disk device. That's the open question. Do backup tools use only group disk access for restores or do they run as root? greetings, Florian La Roche
