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Date:      Mon, 21 Jan 2013 21:50:01 +0400
From:      "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>
To:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
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:  <50FD7FC9.5000503@yandex.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20130121174811.GL2522@kib.kiev.ua>
References:  <1839155364.20130119150146@serebryakov.spb.ru> <50FD7A59.4010606@yandex.ru> <20130121174811.GL2522@kib.kiev.ua>

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On 21.01.2013 21:48, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
>>>   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*.

Yes, there is some devfs foo needed. But the easiest way is sudo :)

-- 
WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov



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