aacraid style monitoring for megaraid2, use DELL_megaraid2.monitoring.tar.gz

[Sean Dilda]

Patrick_Boyd at dell.com wrote:
> That's a correct assesment of our support for 64-bit Oses. 
> 
> As for opensourcing our management tools I'm afraid that portions of
> those are the IP of our Vendors and are disclossed to us under NDA, our
> hands are as tied as yours are. And there really are some bad things
> that non-root level users could do if they had access to some of the
> source code in the RAID management libraries.
> 

That sounds a lot like security through obscurity.  Which is a really 
bad plan at this level.

If a non-root user can do bad things, then shouldn't the driver be fixed 
to prevent that?  Along those same lines, wouldn't malicious users be 
able to figure out how to do the 'bad things' if they just read through 
the driver code?


The fact that there are drivers in common use that are using security 
through obscurity really bothers me.