Date: 4 May 2002 16:57:41 -0000 From: atk2@arctic.org To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: device permissions Message-ID: <20020504165741.17472.qmail@twinlark.arctic.org>
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When I upgraded to stable a few days ago -- and did a ./MAKEDEV all things were ok. I then added a couple of scsi drives (the partitions didn't exist so I did another ./MAKEDEV all (or perhaps it was ./MAKEDEV axxxs[n] to get the partitions). Anyways in the process of the MAKEDEV all devices became un-readable to the world (not sure if was initial make or secondary make) but non-root users couldn't run things like X because /dev/random (for example) was unreadable). After chmod w+r a few devices - I gave in and did a wild card w+r. Not really the prefered solution -- So -- question -- why didn't those devices which need to be world read able (aka /dev/random) get made that way ? Alan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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