regular user can destroy disk label?!?

[Julian H. Stacey]

Robert Watson wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> 
> > Thomas Hurst wrote:
> >> * Julian H. Stacey (jhs at berklix.org) wrote:
> >>
> >>> Either:
> >>>   - You made a typo with ar0s2 & meant ad0s2,
> >>>   - Or you really mean "ar" - man 4 ar reports a comms card !
> >>
> >> ataraid(4) exposes ATA RAID devices as ar%d:
> >>
> >>  -% man 4 ataraid |grep /dev
> >>       /dev/ar*  ATA RAID device nodes
> >
> > Thanks Thomas, that explains name then.
> >
> > It doesnt affect thoughts on permissions though, unless driver very strange.
> 
> Something people occasional get surprised by is the fact that members of the 
> operator group are given significant access to local disks, etc.  Could user 
> account in question have been in the operator group?
> 
> Robert N M Watson

Good guess;  No response seen though from questioner Harald S.,
(though my mail filter was in heavy change this week).
BTW Harald S., Ian Smith wrote add -d: 		cd /dev ; ls -l -d . ar0s2

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