GMIRROR can be destroyed by ordinary users

Emanuel Strobl emanuel.strobl at gmx.net
Sat Jan 8 06:49:25 PST 2005


Am Samstag, 8. Januar 2005 15:41 schrieb Simon L. Nielsen:

> > I think it's a big error that ordinary users can issue a 'gmirror
> > stop /dev/mirrir/sample' with success!
>
> Are you sure about that?  I can't do it on my test system:
>
> [simon at trillian:~] gmirror stop /dev/mirror/sys0
> Permission denied

I'm quiet sure because I accidentally did it once, but unfortnately now I 
don't have a test machine. The only "not so ordinary" about my user is that 
it's in the group wheel. If you have a test machine, could you find out if 
that's the error?

Thanks,

-Harry
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