[GTALUG] Adding all users to the "disk" group: bad idea, or terrible idea?

[Nicholas Krause]

On 2/17/20 4:28 PM, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote:
> So I'm working with a developer making a simple cross-platform 
> graphical program to write Raspberry Pi OS images to SD card. This is 
> meant for beginners to use. The developer is adamant that their 
> program doesn't need to run under 'sudo' but that every user should be 
> added to the disk group instead.
>
> This means that every user can write directly to system disk devices 
> at any time. The Debian-based systems I use don't add regular users to 
> "disk". Is it reasonable/common for regular users to be set up this way?
>
> cheers
>
>  Stewart $(export HAVE_ACCIDENTALLY_OVERWRITTEN_ROOT=1) Russell
>
>

After just checking not its a bad idea. Disk is raw disk access so 
basically root.

Nick
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