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

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Fri Feb 21 14:27:01 EST 2020


On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 10:14:40AM -0500, mwilson--- via talk wrote:
> Would it be as simple to change the permissions on the particular drive,
> and then just let the users have at it?
> 
> eg. sudo chmod a+rw /dev/mmcblk0

This is for making USB keys I believe, so you might as well run the
program with sudo rather than temporarily changing the permissions udev
put on the device using sudo.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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