Bug 135229

Summary:	Patch to make eject respect device permissions
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	David A. Corby <davec-gentoo>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	eject-2.1.0-rdwr.patch Updated ebuild to include the patch.

Description David A. Corby 2006-06-01 21:59:05 UTC

As it is, eject opens device files read-only. Only root can bypass this and eject devices anyway. This patch makes eject open the device read-write, so that normal users can eject the device as long as they have write permission to it. I did not come up with this patch myself, just integrated it into Gentoo, I originally found it here:

http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0512.2/0932.html

Updated ebuild and patch are attached.

Comment 1 David A. Corby 2006-06-01 22:00:58 UTC

Created attachment 88157 [details, diff]
eject-2.1.0-rdwr.patch

This patch changes eject to open devices rdwr if possible, allowing normal users to call eject.

Comment 2 David A. Corby 2006-06-01 22:01:50 UTC

Created attachment 88158 [details]
Updated ebuild to include the patch.

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2006-06-11 07:42:26 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 116731 ***