Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 20:15:34 +0200 From: Stephan van Beerschoten <stephanb@whacky.net> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: chmod 666 /dev/null Message-ID: <20010328201533.B1877@enigma.whacky.net> In-Reply-To: <20010328201255.A1877@enigma.whacky.net>; from stephanb@whacky.net on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 08:12:55PM %2B0200 References: <20010328201255.A1877@enigma.whacky.net>
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Ouch .. ok this was meant to go to -stable.
I don't know what made me sent this to -current.. damn.
I'll cc this reply to -stable. My apologies.
Anyway, I forgot to mention some into.. I do not have DEVFS in my
kernel and this is my kernel:
FreeBSD enigma.whacky.net 4.3-RC FreeBSD 4.3-RC #0: Wed Mar 28 10:40:13 CEST 2001 root@enigma.whacky.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ENIGMA i386
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Stephan van Beerschoten wrote:
> 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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