Scott Rotondo wrote:
> Phi Tran wrote:
>>> I'm glad that you've decided to use an existing profile and not add
>>> new authorizations. I just wanted to clarify that these are two
>>> separate decisions.
>>>
>>
>> There was an issue brought up about fdisk which doesn't have an entry
>> in exec_attr. I assume the intention was to not allow regular users to
>> use fdisk or maybe this is a bug. One could call fdisk from format,
>> but I don't think that was a requirement to use fdisk.
>>
>> I think parted and fdisk should be allowed for regular users since
>> these commands could be useful for removable media. These commands can
>> be included with the File System Management profile and given
>> appropriate privileges as suggested previously.
>>
>> I'd like to get any comments to see if there should be a
>> reason that parted should follow fdisk permission handling or if the
>> case should continue with adding parted to the File System Management
>> profile with appropriate privileges.
>>
>
> I think the fact that fdisk is missing from File System Management is
> just a bug. You should add parted to that profile with appropriate
> privileges, and you may want to correct the previous bug by adding
> fdisk too.
If "Partition Management" is one aspect of "File System Management",
then I agree. It wasn't immediately clear to me that this was the case,
but I also didn't realize you could call fdisk from within format when I
first looked at this.
-- Garrett
