Date: Wed, 19 Apr 95 19:41:02 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: julian@freefall.cdrom.com (Julian Elischer) Cc: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: [DEVFS] thanks for the thoughts Message-ID: <9504200141.AA21804@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199504192358.QAA03041@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Apr 19, 95 04:58:41 pm
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> terry was correct in most of his comments though as usual there was the > obligatory 20% that I couldn't make heads nor tails of.. I'd be happy to elaborate on anything in private or public, whatever. > On the question of assigning non-standard ownerships.. > I envision a small program that the administrator runs, > to register the ownership or permission change of a device, > and the same program when run in the rc scripts, automatically > adjusting the ownerships of any such devices found. > Maybe this might be an addition to chmod/chown/chgrp? May I suggest that you'll want seperate programs for the ownership and permission modifications. I'd like to propose two new commands: chown chmod These have the advantage of being known to work in rc scripts. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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