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<h1>Re: saned - Problem found</h1>
<b>Terry Mackintosh</b> (<a href="mailto:terry@terrym.com"><i>terry@terrym.com</i></a>)<br>
<i>Thu, 8 Oct 1998 14:23:05 -0400 (EDT)</i>
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On Thu, 8 Oct 1998 <a href="mailto:becka@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de">becka@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de</a> wrote:<br>
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<i>&gt; Hi !</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; Added both read and write for every one, changed the line in inet.conf</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; back to nobody.nobody, and all works well.</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; Hmm - this isn't a very good solution, but ...</i><br>
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OK, I'm listening, what is a better solution?<br>
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This is the first time I have EVER had a scsi device, so I'm not real<br>
familiar with all the in's and out's, the card is an Adaptec 2940 uw, the<br>
scanner is an HP LaserJet 5p, w/ an uw scsi to scsiII adapter cable in the<br>
middle, if all that matters.<br>
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I have a group called 'sys':<br>
[root@home /etc]# grep sys group<br>
sys::3:root,bin,adm<br>
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Should I run the scanner as nobody.sys? Then I could remove the<br>
permissions for the world from /dev/sga, as the group is sys.<br>
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Thanks<br>
Terry<br>
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<i>&gt; &gt; So, prehaps there should be a note in the man page for saned that on a Red</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; Hat 4.2 box, the permissions on the scsi divice will need to be changed.</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; Note, the only scsi device I have at this point is the scanner, if one</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; also has disks, then I do not know what security ramifications this might</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; have.</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; Hmm - well this isn't good. Not even for single device. It depends on how well</i><br>
<i>&gt; the device in question is designed.</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; The point is, that you don't need to be afraid of someone accessing other </i><br>
<i>&gt; devices (except if the hardware in question is a very weird thing that can</i><br>
<i>&gt; initiate transfers), but that you can do about anything to the "open"</i><br>
<i>&gt; device that is exposed by the world-rw-able /dev/sg?.</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; This can cause the device to do about anything, sometimes (with bad devices)</i><br>
<i>&gt; even things it shouldn't do, like crash, lock the bus, damage its hardware</i><br>
<i>&gt; (yes, this is possible, if you know the device well - Mustek scanners can</i><br>
<i>&gt; push the slider too far, many devices can have their firmware reprogrammed,</i><br>
<i>&gt; so guess what happens if you write garbage in there ...), etc. ...</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; CU,Andy</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; -- </i><br>
<i>&gt; Andreas Beck | Email : &lt;<a href="mailto:Andreas.Beck@ggi-project.org">Andreas.Beck@ggi-project.org</a>&gt;</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
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