From owner-freebsd-stable Sat May 4 10:26:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from unagi.cybernothing.org (unagi.cybernothing.org [205.158.174.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73BFE37B47B for ; Sat, 4 May 2002 09:57:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from twinlark.arctic.org (twinlark.arctic.org [208.44.199.239]) by unagi.cybernothing.org (8.11.3/8.10.1/JDF) with ESMTP id g44Gvhh02354 for ; Sat, 4 May 2002 09:57:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 17473 invoked by uid 1347); 4 May 2002 16:57:41 -0000 Date: 4 May 2002 16:57:41 -0000 Message-ID: <20020504165741.17472.qmail@twinlark.arctic.org> From: atk2@arctic.org To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: device permissions Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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