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

[Phi Tran]

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.

My fault :).  The wording should be privileged user, not regular user.

Phi