On Mon, Dec 19 2005, john stultz wrote:
> All,
> I'm getting a little tired of my roommates not knowing how to safely
> eject their usb-flash disks from my system and I'd personally like it if
> I could avoid bringing up a root shell to eject my ipod. Sure, one could
> suid the eject command, but that seems just as bad as changing the
> permissions in the kernel (eject wouldn't be able to check if the user
> has read/write permissions on the device, allowing them to eject
> anything).
This just came up yesterday, eject isn't opening the device RDWR hence
you have a permission problem with a command requiring write
permissions. So just fix eject, there's no need to suid eject or run it
as root.
--
Jens Axboe
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