From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 17 11:55:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA08610 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 11:55:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA08599 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 11:55:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA10751; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 11:55:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 11:55:48 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Evan Champion cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: permissions on /dev/sd* In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Evan Champion wrote: > On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Doug White wrote: > > Did I misunderstand the question? I thought you could mount an FS but > > wanted to change the perms on who accessed it. > > Some of my /dev/r?sd* nodes were owned by root:wheel while the vast > majority were owned by root:operator. The ones owned by root:wheel > appeared in general to be for mounted devices, but then there were mounted > devices that were root:operator too. Hm, I just checked this on my box and all the disk devices are owned by root:operator. Perhaps your permissions were skewed? The *.ctl devices are still owned by root:wheel tho. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major