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From: Evan Champion <evanc@synapse.net>
To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: permissions on /dev/sd*
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On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Doug White wrote: 

> 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.

It was like that too on one of my other systems.  But I let sysinstall
create all the devices, so if it was supposed to be all root:operator
(excecpt the .ctl), then I don't understand how that happened.

I just wanted to confirm that there wasn't any particular reason why they
were root:wheel.

Evan