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

[Garrett D'Amore]

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