From owner-freebsd-stable Sun May 5 4:30:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from a96180.upc-a.chello.nl (a96180.upc-a.chello.nl [62.163.96.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 733B737B400 for ; Sun, 5 May 2002 04:30:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by a96180.upc-a.chello.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id EB82D2177; Sun, 5 May 2002 13:30:14 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 13:30:14 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai To: atk2@arctic.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: device permissions Message-ID: <20020505113014.GP66061@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <20020504165741.17472.qmail@twinlark.arctic.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020504165741.17472.qmail@twinlark.arctic.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Organisation: Ninth Circle Enterprises 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 -On [20020504 19:28], atk2@arctic.org (atk2@arctic.org) wrote: >So -- question -- why didn't those devices which need to be world read able >(aka /dev/random) get made that way ? They are: [13:27] [asmodai@purgatory] (18) {0} $ grep random /usr/src/etc/MAKEDEV mknod random c 2 3; chmod 644 random mknod urandom c 2 4; chmod 644 urandom I am seriously suspecting something local must be wrong on your box. Everything works as advertised here. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven / asmodai / Kita no Mono asmodai@wxs.nl, finger asmodai@ninth-circle.org http://www.softweyr.com/asmodai/ | http://www.tendra.org/ Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message