Bug#437980: should tune2fs (etc) be world-executable?

2007-08-15 Thread Sven Joachim
Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Curious. I was able to make a change like that freely. I notice that > my account has been added to group 'disk', which is the group > for /dev/hda*. I wonder if that's what gives me permission to change > the partitions. Exactly that is your problem,

Bug#437980: should tune2fs (etc) be world-executable?

2007-08-15 Thread Drew Parsons
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 15:08 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > But I could imagine it being somewhat disconcerting if I were managing a > > set of common machines, only to find some random user had, for > > instance, changed the times for the next autom

Bug#437980: should tune2fs (etc) be world-executable?

2007-08-15 Thread Sven Joachim
Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Currently (unless my system deviates from everyone else) tune2fs is > world-executable: > $ ls -l /sbin/tune2fs > -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 21432 2007-07-14 23:06 /sbin/tune2fs There is nothing wrong with this. Anybody can download the e2fsprogs package an

Bug#437980: should tune2fs (etc) be world-executable?

2007-08-14 Thread Drew Parsons
Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.40.2-1 Severity: normal Currently (unless my system deviates from everyone else) tune2fs is world-executable: $ ls -l /sbin/tune2fs -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 21432 2007-07-14 23:06 /sbin/tune2fs I wanted to query whether this is in fact the way we want it. It doesn't b