From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 3 8:36:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C7AF37B419 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 08:36:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g23Ga4Lv079391; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 17:36:04 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs(5) Permissions In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 03 Mar 2002 08:31:36 PST." <20020303083136.A84637@blossom.cjclark.org> Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 17:36:04 +0100 Message-ID: <79390.1015173364@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20020303083136.A84637@blossom.cjclark.org>, "Crist J. Clark" writes : >I've checked the manpages, the files in /etc, and Googled, and I can't >find the answer. I am begining to worry there isn't one. How does one >change the permissions on dynamically created devices? That is, when >the node comes into existence, it has the permissions I want, and not >necessarily the defaults. The overall plan is that it will be possible to push a ruleset into the kernel which changes the defaults. ETA: this summer (If I have to do it, if somebody wants to help code it it can probably be done faster). -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message