Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 20:12:55 +0200 From: Stephan van Beerschoten <stephanb@whacky.net> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: chmod 666 /dev/null Message-ID: <20010328201255.A1877@enigma.whacky.net>
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I just rebooted my machine with the cvupped-and-compiled world
and kernel, I logged on and did the following:
(stephanb@enigma|ttyp4)~> w
w: /dev/null: Permission denied
Checking out /dev/null gave me this:
crw------- 1 root wheel 2, 2 Mar 28 20:00 /dev/null
I had to chmod it to 666 again in order for me as non-root
to do a 'w' ... my question. Why this behaviour ?
I've been running FreeBSD for years, but this puzzles me
-Stephan
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