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Date:      Mon, 21 Jan 2013 19:48:11 +0200
From:      Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>
Cc:        lev@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Is it possible to run gpart and newfs on file without root access (without mdconfig)?
Message-ID:  <20130121174811.GL2522@kib.kiev.ua>
In-Reply-To: <50FD7A59.4010606@yandex.ru>
References:  <1839155364.20130119150146@serebryakov.spb.ru> <50FD7A59.4010606@yandex.ru>

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On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 09:26:49PM +0400, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
> On 19.01.2013 15:01, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> > Hello, Freebsd-geom.
> > 
> >   Patches to build and install world without root access will hit tree
> > in near future, and I wonder is it possible to build complete NanoBSD
> > image without root access? Now image is built via creating MD disk and
> > it needs root access anyway :(
> >   Is here any way to create disk image (in file) without root access?
> > 
> >   Yes, permissions fixup needs root access in any case, but it
> > could be done on first boot of created image, on target device, with
> > some rc kung-foo!
> 
> # chmod g+rw /dev/mdctl
> # chmod g+rw /dev/geom.ctl
> 
> And now the operators group can do what you want.

Do the newly created devfs nodes for the md(4) and partitions on md(4)
somehow get g+rw afterwards ? I think the write access is needed to
/dev/mdN*.

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