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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
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Subject: Re: [DEVFS] thanks for the thoughts
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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
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