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Date:      Mon, 24 Sep 2001 11:53:21 -0700
From:      Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /dev/null permission change from 4.3 -> 4.4...
Message-ID:  <20010924115320.B33285@rand.tgd.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010923183733.A73977@xor.obsecurity.org>; from "kris@obsecurity.org" on Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at = 06:37:33PM
References:  <20010923175213.B18824@rand.tgd.net> <20010923183733.A73977@xor.obsecurity.org>

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> > 	Howdy.  This question was originally framed as a "why doesn't
> > uptime work for users in 4.4, when it used to in 4.3," but after looking
> > into things further, it's now a "why is /dev/null set to mod 0600?"  On
> > a 4.3 system that I have, the perms on dev/null are 666.
>=20
> Something must have gone wrong..

I couldn't agree more.  :)

> it's still supposed to be 666, and is on my machines.

I've gotten a few other reports from other people that have said that=20
/dev/random and /dev/urandom were also set to (6|4)00, so I don't think=20
it's an isolated event... on the other hand, it doesn't appear to be a=20
problem currently and is believed to have been just a one time=20
"feature".  -sc

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Sean Chittenden

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