Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 11:46:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> To: dufault@hda.com (Peter Dufault) Cc: terry@cs.weber.edu, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: DEVFS ownership and permissions Message-ID: <199504191846.LAA09577@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199504191837.OAA05851@hda.com> from "Peter Dufault" at Apr 19, 95 02:37:38 pm
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> Terry Lambert writes: > > > > > BTW: How the heck do permissions work? > > > > Ownership and permissions should be specified by the device itself as > > part of the registration information. > > Bill has a raw disk partition he collects his image data on. It is > owned by bill and read write by Bill. It is /dev/rsd1e. Where is > the persistence of the ownership and the permissions of this raw device > which is owned by a regular user? Is it stored on disk someplace and > gets established as the system comes up? Contrary to to Terry, I have talked with Julian about his ideas :-) I belive we will make it part of the boot procedure to have a shell script set the permissions. Permissions are policy, and policy does not belong in the kernel. -- Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'
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