-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 10:45:52AM +0000, Brian wrote:
[...] > I hope cfdisk is an acceptable alternative to gparted, which is not on > my system. 'fakeroot /sbin/cfdisk' gives "cfdisk: cannot open /dev/sda: > Permission denied". We are talking past each other, I think. The above result is to be expected. I'm perfectly OK with that. You'd get that wih or without fakeroot (it doesn't convey powers to you you don't have. That feat would imply a gaping security hole in Linux. There are some, but the most obvious have been covered -- hopefully! long ago. The point Stefan (and me) are trying to make is that *the application has no business in checking user permissions*, and parted is doing exactly that ("am I root?"). It's something to be left to the OS (try to open the device and catch an EACCESS error; translate that for the user. That's what cfdisk above *is* doing, and I'm fine with that! *If* you happen to have read/write access to a device/file [1], then cfdisk would let you just go ahead (right behaviour), while gparted would stop you ("nyah nyah you aren' root" -- *wrong*). [1] Stefan and me have given examples where that would make sense. - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlgjAfYACgkQBcgs9XrR2kaPIwCeNf0Fb9cP5e4efUT3KoPrnK+V 87kAn0pivYKxpFwnQb0wa7i1rrpZdtsF =FBNW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----