On 8/21/06, Jan de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Running hal as disk group member is just as safe as making it setuid
> root or something like that. Anything that is member of the disk group
> can cat your complete harddisk and read anything from the image they
> create with that. Hal is designed to run as nonprivileged user and runs
> fine as it does with the groups we assigned it to, even without the disk
> group it shows all my partitions.

what about the storage group? Just as dangerous? Sorry, I have no idea.

-Jeff

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