Follow the thread to see how the security exploit is depolyed.
Cheers,
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Jacques Richer wrote:
> Everyone on the "trash disk as root" thread seems to be
> looking at this as a security issue. It is possible to
> consider this as a usability issue as well. This may be
> naive, but is it possible for an administrator to attempt to
> set parameters incorrectly and trash the disk _without_ an
> intent to cause damage. I know that in my own salad (read
> green) days as an admin, I occasionally got slapped for
> putting my fingers in the wrong place - and this could be a
> major size slap :-)
>
> Jacques Richer
>
Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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