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

[Nicolas Williams]

On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 09:16:49AM -0800, Phi Tran wrote:
> Neal Pollack wrote:
> >So, how do you keep one of the regular users on a SunRay server from
> >destroying the partitions with fdisk?
> 
> The above means regular users with privileges actually.  These users
> (non-root) need the File System Management profile to get the
> privileges.

Regular users won't have that profile.  Therefore they won't be able to
execute parted with sufficient privilege, therefore they won't be able
to cause harm.  This is really a basic RBAC question and does not need
to be discussed to death on this list.

IMO all the case has converged.