Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 16:02:13 -0600 From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca> To: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding a 'bpf' group for /dev/bpf* Message-ID: <200204202202.g3KM2DJ93468@orthanc.ab.ca> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 20 Apr 2002 14:51:39 PDT." <20020420145139.D76898@blossom.cjclark.org>
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>>>>> "Crist" == Crist J Clark <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
Crist> I do this a lot too on systems where it makes sense. But I'm
Crist> not sure I understand what you are asking to be done. Is it
Crist> asking too much of an administrator to do,
There are two ways to handle this. One is to modify the ports builds to
conditionally create a 'bpf' group. This requires the ports all agree
on the group, and I don't like the idea of a port install messing with
permissions and ownerships of things in /dev (which aren't sticky across
reboots, anyway). If the OS sets the access policy there cannot be any
confusion.
--lyndon
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