Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:20:31 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: xinopher@web.de Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev 5.3 vs 4.x, additional rights for user, reboot Message-ID: <20041130172031.GA59116@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <350578163@web.de> References: <350578163@web.de>
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--VS++wcV0S1rZb1Fb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 06:08:39PM +0100, xinopher@web.de wrote: > Hi >=20 > I started to move some of my machines from 4.x to 5.3. >=20 > Using amanda (www.amanda.org) for backups I ran into a problem: >=20 > The user operator is used by amanda for all stuff, for example > questioning /dev/ch0 to change the tape. >=20 > 5.3: ls -la /dev/ch0 > crw------- 1 root operator 232, 0 Nov 30 14:35 /dev/ch0 >=20 > While using 4.x I just did chmod g+rw /dev/ch0 during installation > of amanda and everything was fine, now rebooting a 5.3 machine > everything is not fine as the additional rights are gone... >=20 > Is there a way to grant additional rights surviving reboots? > I can write a little script for /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ but I do not think > that would be very cute :-( man devfs Kris --VS++wcV0S1rZb1Fb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBrKvfWry0BWjoQKURAgvLAKDz28FLsg+EC5mpYlonK9ctARMKRgCguEVn hnMZx7sN4pNzQLWNoNGt1RU= =7+x4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --VS++wcV0S1rZb1Fb--
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