[LBo] Re: Curious about a security issue

[Billy Pollifrone]

On Sunday 11 February 2007 06:26, Dave Lerner wrote:
> vwall wrote on 02/11/2007 12:14 AM:
> > Dave Lerner wrote:
> >> I'm curious about a security issue.
> >>
> >> I have the package lde (Linux Disk Editor) installed.  It allows one to
> >> read/write raw data on the disk, evidently bypassing directory and file
> >> permissions.
> >
> > You can use dd from the CLI, to write sectors to the hard drive.  It
> > should be only executable by root.
>
> The reason I installed lde was to learn more about the linux file
> system. It can display data in both inode and block mode.  I wanted to
> see how info was actually stored on the disk.

I assume that when you go to write something, you may need super user 
permissions to do so at least I would hope so.

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(o_  Billy Pollifrone
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