Re: Operator, Information, give me geom.ctl on the line

"Poul-Henning Kamp" <[email protected]> Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:14:50 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.os.freebsd.current
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Rodney W. Grimes writes:

> Have I missed something in the thread, operators should only have read
> access to the nodes, how are they  being allowed to modify anything?

I tried to explain that in the initial message.

Short version: geom.ctl, ioctl, no access control beyond open(2).

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