3 Sep
2014
3 Sep
'14
12:50 a.m.
On Wednesday, September 03, 2014 06:25:05 AM Ed Greshko wrote:
The GID/UID scheme has been around since the dawn of Unix. Anyone cannot chown, they need to be root. It isn't, and never was intended, to be a method of securing access to external drives. If you need to secure access to data on an external drive then you need to use encrypted partitions.
It's like Linus's printer rant. You setup laptops for family member and they regularly require root password for mundane tasks like hooking up a printer or an external hard drive, etc.
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