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Date:      Tue, 2 Nov 2004 17:25:14 +0100
From:      Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
To:        "Ryan Sommers" <ryans@gamersimpact.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 5.3: how to make /dev/acd0 world readable?
Message-ID:  <200411021725.14895.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
In-Reply-To: <51330.208.4.77.15.1099410024.squirrel@208.4.77.15>
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Am Tuesday 02 November 2004 16:40 schrieb Ryan Sommers:
> Michael Nottebrock said:
> > Or you could add your user account to group operator.
>
> I think this is a very bad suggestion. He didn't say "my user" he said
> "world readable." While we're in the Bad Suggestion Dept. why not just
> tell him to set all his binaries that need acces to the device suid root?

I believe that statement belongs into the nonsensical-remark dept., thank you 
very much.

> The operator group isn't intended to be a group-that-can-read-CDs. 

The operator group is a very convenient solution for many permission-problems 
on a very common case of FreeBSD usage: A private desktop system with exactly 
one real user account + root. I don't believe it's too far-fetched a guess 
that such a system is what we're talking about when the OP talks about 
playing audio-cds.

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