From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Jul 15 4: 3: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.du.gtn.com (mail.du.gtn.com [194.77.9.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8427C37B8F9; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 04:02:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: from mail.cicely.de (cicely.de [194.231.9.142]) by mail.du.gtn.com (8.11.0.Beta3/8.11.0.Beta3) with ESMTP id e6FB2d304629 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168 bits) verified OK); Sat, 15 Jul 2000 13:02:41 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from cicely8.cicely.de (cicely8.cicely.de [10.1.2.10]) by mail.cicely.de (8.11.0.Beta1/8.11.0.Beta1) with ESMTP id e6FB21m27792; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 13:02:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely8.cicely.de (8.9.3/8.9.2) id NAA13064; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 13:01:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso) Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 13:01:56 +0200 From: Bernd Walter To: Chris Costello Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Adrian Chadd , Matthew Dillon , Andrzej Bialecki , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SysctlFS Message-ID: <20000715130156.B12982@cicely8.cicely.de> References: <20000712144510.A11316@ywing.creative.net.au> <200007130537.WAA29614@apollo.backplane.com> <20000714112117.D17372@ywing.creative.net.au> <20000714053540.A30847@holly.calldei.com> <20000714124327.A64283@mithrandr.moria.org> <20000714055311.C30847@holly.calldei.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000714055311.C30847@holly.calldei.com>; from chris@calldei.com on Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 05:53:11AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 05:53:11AM -0500, Chris Costello wrote: > > The command used to "tell it to change permissions" is chmod. > Devfs is supposed to work like a file system, not like a user > level application. If I chmod 0600 /dev/null and reboot without > issuing some odd 'syncdevfs' command, I want to be the only one > who can write to the bitbucket when the system comes back up. > Do you really want this or is it OK to have default permissions in singleuser mode and having this restored while going multiuser? -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message