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Date:      Sat, 4 Oct 2003 10:30:58 -0400
From:      Guy Middleton <guy@obstruction.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: permissions on umass device
Message-ID:  <20031004143058.GA640@chaos.obstruction.com>
In-Reply-To: <20031004032256.GA57084@rot13.obsecurity.org>
References:  <20031004024606.GA64460@chaos.obstruction.com> <20031004032256.GA57084@rot13.obsecurity.org>

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On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 08:22:56PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 10:46:06PM -0400, Guy Middleton wrote:
> > On a 5.1-RELEASE system, I attach a umass device, and it appears in /dev like
> > this:
> > 
> > $ ls -l /dev/da3
> > crw-r-----  1 root  operator    4,  28 Sep 19 23:29 /dev/da3
> > $ 
> > 
> > How do I get it to use different permissions, or a different group?
> 
> /etc/devfs.conf

I tried this:

perm    da3     0660

This did not work for me.  It looks as if /etc/devfs.conf is only read at
boot, so my umass device (a USB memory key) is ignored when attached later.



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