Re: [gentoo-user] Running "hddtemp" with plain user rights

2006-01-21 Thread Holly Bostick 
Alexander Skwar schreef:
> Hello!
> 
> I'd like to be able to run "hddtemp" 
> with "plain" user rights - ie. not with root
> rights. What's to be done, so that this is
> possible?
> 

> 
> As you can see, I get the error message "Permission
> denied" when I run "hddtemp /dev/hda". As you can
> further see, the group disk has read-/write-access on
> the device file. And lastly, you can see that my user
> is member of the group "disk".
> 
> Why do I get the Permission denied error message? And
> what's to be done?

Isn't hddtemp a daemon (therfore executable)? Does the group have the
right to execute hddtemp?

Just an idea,
Holly
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Re: [gentoo-user] Running "hddtemp" with plain user rights

2006-01-21 Thread Alexander Skwar 
Holly Bostick wrote:
> Alexander Skwar schreef:

>> Why do I get the Permission denied error message? And
>> what's to be done?
> 
> Isn't hddtemp a daemon

Not necessarily. It can be run in daemon mode, though.

> Does the group have the
> right to execute hddtemp?

Yep:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -la `which hddtemp`
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 27712 21. Jan 08:02 /usr/sbin/hddtemp

BTW: sudo is also not what I'm after :) I'm after the
reason, why I get that "Permission denied" message
when I've got the necessary rights on the device file.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Running "hddtemp" with plain user rights

2006-01-21 Thread Rasmus Andersen 
On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 04:06:44PM +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> > Does the group have the
> > right to execute hddtemp?
> 
> Yep:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -la `which hddtemp`
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 27712 21. Jan 08:02 /usr/sbin/hddtemp
> 
> BTW: sudo is also not what I'm after :) I'm after the
> reason, why I get that "Permission denied" message
> when I've got the necessary rights on the device file.

I get this too. stracing the hddtemp process shows that it tries to
perform some ioctls on the device and get EACCESS back, probably from
some uid check in the kernel. The check itself can probably be found but
I dont have the time for that now.

Rasmus
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Re: [gentoo-user] Running "hddtemp" with plain user rights

2006-01-21 Thread Alexander Skwar 
Rasmus Andersen wrote:

> I get this too. stracing the hddtemp process shows that it tries to
> perform some ioctls on the device and get EACCESS back, probably from
> some uid check in the kernel.

Ah, okay, so the permissions on /dev/hda don't matter
that much.

Understood. Thanks!

> The check itself can probably be found but
> I dont have the time for that now.

Don't worry. I guess I'll have to setuid hddtemp then.

Thanks again,

Alexander Skwar
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Re: [gentoo-user] Running "hddtemp" with plain user rights

2006-01-21 Thread Richard Fish 
On 1/21/06, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Don't worry. I guess I'll have to setuid hddtemp then.

Not necessarily.

rc-update -a hddtemp default (or "/etc/init.d/hddtemp start" as root)
telnet localhost 7634

See man hddtemp.

-Richard

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