From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 11 11:29:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id LAA00368 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 11:29:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id LAA00362 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 11:29:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA01391 for hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 20:29:39 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id UAA01413; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 20:10:07 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 20:10:07 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: default permission for audio devices References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from John Fieber on Jan 11, 1997 13:18:38 -0500 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As John Fieber wrote: > For devfs, do are there particular opinions of ideal default > permissions and ownership? Current default is 660 and > root.games. I think DEVFS should create all devices 0600 root:wheel. It's bogus for the kernel to hard-code user or group names. Everything else should be handled at rc(8) time, which is also where the beloved persistency will come into the game. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)