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Date:      Wed, 17 Mar 2004 15:26:12 +0200
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
To:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ramdisks revisited
Message-ID:  <20040317132612.GB95645@ip.net.ua>
In-Reply-To: <200403161003.01889.wes@opensail.org>
References:  <200403161003.01889.wes@opensail.org>

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On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:03:01AM -0800, Wes Peters wrote:
> The guy who originally asked for the ability to control ownership and 
> permissions of his ramdisks discovered one critical flaw in my lovely 
> rc.d script: chown isn't in /sbin (or /rescue) on a vanilla 5.x system.
> 
> As an alternative to moving binaries into the root filesystem, I propose 
> the following patch to mdconfig to add options to specify the ownership 
> and permissions of the newly attached md device.  Options added are 
> -m mode, -g group, and -O owner (because -o and -u were both already used.) 
> I will, of course, update the man page before committing.  Any objections?
> 
Can't /etc/devfs.conf be used for just that?


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
FreeBSD committer
ru@FreeBSD.org

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