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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org>
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Subject: Re: drivin' me nuts: permissions and cdda2wav
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On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:14:05 +0000, Arthur Chance wrote:
> Excellent as a general purpose diagnostic for pluggable devices, but for 
> a CD drive that's permanently wired to a SATA port and has its SCSI 
> address fixed by device hints like mine it's rather overkill.

I think in such a case going with /etc/devfs.conf
permissions is the easiest way to go. I'm also
following such an approach.

link	cd0	cdrom
link	cd0	dvd
own	cd0	root:operator
perm	cd0	0664
own	xpt0	root:operator
perm	xpt0	0660
own	pass0	root:operator
perm	pass0	0660



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