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Date:      Mon, 17 Nov 1997 11:55:48 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Evan Champion <evanc@synapse.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: permissions on /dev/sd*
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971117115511.10644M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971117102842.283D-100000@cello.synapse.net>

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On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Evan Champion wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Doug White wrote: 
> > Did I misunderstand the question?  I thought you could mount an FS but
> > wanted to change the perms on who accessed it.
> 
> Some of my /dev/r?sd* nodes were owned by root:wheel while the vast
> majority were owned by root:operator.  The ones owned by root:wheel
> appeared in general to be for mounted devices, but then there were mounted
> devices that were root:operator too.

Hm, I just checked this on my box and all the disk devices are owned by
root:operator.  Perhaps your permissions were skewed?  The *.ctl devices
are still owned by root:wheel tho.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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