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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Evan Champion <evanc@synapse.net>
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Subject: Re: permissions on /dev/sd*
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On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Evan Champion wrote:

> Is there any particular reason why the permissions on my mounted drives
> are root:wheel 640 instead of root:operator 640?  This is making it rather
> difficult for me to back up.

Because the underlying mountpoint is owned by root:wheel.  It's a matter
of dismounting the drives, chown root:operator /mountpoint and remounting.

I know this is hard for /usr :-)

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