Fwd: Re: Fwd: MBR was destroyed

[Jonathan Ernst]

Le dimanche 20 novembre 2005 à 19:04 +0000, Oliver Stieber a écrit :
> --- Jonathan Ernst <jonathan at ernstfamily.ch> wrote:
> 
> > Le dimanche 20 novembre 2005 à 18:57 +0100, wino at piments.com a écrit :
> > > On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 18:33:53 +0100, Oliver Stieber  
> > > <oliver_stieber at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > > 
> > > >  I've just tried at it appears to have wiped my MBR logged in as a normal
> > > > User in wheel group.
> > > > If this is the problem then I purchsed a new drive because of it last
> > > > month.
> > > > Oliver.
> > > 
> > > Can I have your old one ? ;)
> > > 
> > > Apart from fixing this ugly bug , it looks like something more precise  
> > > than "dont run as root" is needed before inviting the click-and-go windows  
> > > crowd to join the party.
> > 
> > brw-rw----  1 root disk 8, 0 nov 20 17:23 /dev/hda
> > 
> > If you are not part of the disk group and you are not running as root,
> > this cannot happen. There might be a bug in Wine, but the most important
> > error is people having incorrect rights set or having too much rights.
> > 
> I was part of the disk group when my MBR was overwritten because I'd been doing some work on the
> drives and don't like sudo. Isn't it still a bug in wine that the MBR was overwritten in the first
> place, even if I'm in the disks group or running as root?

Yes of course that's a bug in Wine. But what I meant is that the
security model of Linux if correctly applied (i.e. people don't have
rights to make things they are not supposed to do) would prevent such
things to happen.