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Date:      Tue, 19 Nov 2002 00:27:58 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        kip@eventdriven.org
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Device permissions with DEVFS
Message-ID:  <20021119082758.GA3738@rot13.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021119081649.13088.qmail@web14008.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20021119181343.Y29882-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <20021119081649.13088.qmail@web14008.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 12:16:49AM -0800, Kip Macy wrote:
> Sorry, if I'm repeating something already said, but
> the tone of your mail would indicate that I'm not.
>=20
> This doesn't sound like an intrinsic limitation of
> devfs, just an issue with how it is structured now.
> There should just be a central file for all the=20
> devices which devfs sucks in at build (or maybe boot)=20
> time specifying the appropriate permissions and any
> other configuration information.

No, the default permissions are specified in the driver source code
via make_dev().

Kris

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