Parted - GNU Partition Editor [PSARC/2009/145 FastTrack timeout 03/06/2009]

[Sebastien Roy]

On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 15:44 -0800, Mark Logan wrote:
> Sebastien Roy wrote: 
> > On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 14:38 -0800, Phi Tran wrote:
> >   
> > > The following RBAC authorizations and profile will be added.
> > > 
> > > Authorization Names:
> > > solaris.admin.parted.:::Partition Editor::help=AuthPartedHeader.html
> > > solaris.admin.parted.write:::Edit Partitions::help=AuthPartedWrite.html
> > >     
> > 
> > Is there a technical reason why reading partition information would
> > require a special authorization?
> >   
> 
> Parted needs permission to access the raw disk device.

Okay, and how is this authorization related to having permission to
access the raw device?  Is there an exec_attr entry for parted under the
new "Edit Partitions" profile that includes the actual privilege
required to access raw disk devices?

In any case, +1 from me, my questions are quite minor.

Thanks,
-Seb