Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 12:49:17 -0500 From: Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> To: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de> Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.ORG>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SysctlFS Message-ID: <20000715124917.D30847@holly.calldei.com> In-Reply-To: <20000715130156.B12982@cicely8.cicely.de> References: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0007121328020.49102-100000@mx.webgiro.com> <20000712144510.A11316@ywing.creative.net.au> <200007130537.WAA29614@apollo.backplane.com> <20000714112117.D17372@ywing.creative.net.au> <xzppuohggib.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20000714053540.A30847@holly.calldei.com> <20000714124327.A64283@mithrandr.moria.org> <20000714055311.C30847@holly.calldei.com> <20000715130156.B12982@cicely8.cicely.de>
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On Saturday, July 15, 2000, Bernd Walter 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? In single user mode, sure. I imagine that the mount code should try to find the file, and if not, just use the attributes set in make_dev(9). -- |Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> |Programming is an unnatural act. `---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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