From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 2 16:25:27 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 042E516A4CE for ; Tue, 2 Nov 2004 16:25:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C4F9143D53 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 2004 16:25:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 28121 invoked by uid 65534); 2 Nov 2004 16:25:24 -0000 Received: from pD9E24D40.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO lofi.dyndns.org) (217.226.77.64) by mail.gmx.net (mp004) with SMTP; 02 Nov 2004 17:25:24 +0100 X-Authenticated: #443188 Received: from kiste.my.domain (kiste.my.domain [192.168.8.4]) (authenticated bits=0) by lofi.dyndns.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iA2GPFOW025906 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 2 Nov 2004 17:25:19 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) From: Michael Nottebrock To: "Ryan Sommers" Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 17:25:14 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <41878CA3.8050207@yahoo.com> <200411021555.25094.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <51330.208.4.77.15.1099410024.squirrel@208.4.77.15> In-Reply-To: <51330.208.4.77.15.1099410024.squirrel@208.4.77.15> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200411021725.14895.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new cc: Rob cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3: how to make /dev/acd0 world readable? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 16:25:27 -0000 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. -- ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org