Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 21:26:11 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs(5) Permissions Message-ID: <27342.1015187171@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 03 Mar 2002 20:23:21 GMT." <200203032023.aa92755@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
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In message <200203032023.aa92755@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>, David Malone writes: >> Not really, the basic idea is just a linked list of rules: > >> name=="/dev/uscanner*" -> chmod 0644 >> driver=="bpf" -> chown user > >> It's not too much work, I just havn't had the time for it yet. >> (Junior Kernel Hackers can apply here :-) > >OK - I thought you had something much more complex in mind after >your example: "plugging the nuclear reactor into the serial port >where you had a a modem plugged in yesterday". No, that was to show why "persistence" is a bad idea. >I presume you'd push the rules in using sysclt or did you have >something more filesystem like in mind? Nope, just a sysctl. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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