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

[Garrett D'Amore]

Nicolas Williams wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
Yes.

I believe I was the one that asked to let the case run, and I don't see 
any other outstanding issues.

I think we can probably close this case as "approved now".  Although I 
suppose it wouldn't hurt to wait the extra 24 hours for it to timeout 
regularly.

    -- Garrett