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Date:      Fri, 9 Oct 2009 17:47:23 +0200
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to set device permissions at startup
Message-ID:  <20091009154723.GA90880@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <4ACED5C6.8060605@gmail.com>
References:  <4ACEAD18.9070000@gmail.com> <20091009061155.GA75746@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <4ACED5C6.8060605@gmail.com>

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On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 02:18:46AM -0400, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
> Roland Smith wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 11:25:12PM -0400, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
> >   
> >> Since certain currently unused devices are not created in /dev 
> >> (specifically in my case /dev/fuse*) how do I tell what ever (I can't 
> >> tell it is devfs or what) to always make /dev/fuse* (when needed) with 
> >> 777 perms (the security implications are not an issue here)
> >
> > See devfs.rules(5).
> 
> Should of been more specific in the orginal question then I added a rule 
> and since the device doesn't exist at devfs mount time it does not honor 
> the rule

Do you have a ruleset named in /etc/devfs.rules? And is it enabled in
/etc/rc.conf? Have you restarted devfs after changing /etc/devfs.rules?

Can you post your /etc/devfs.rules, and the output of 'devfs rule show'?

Roland
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R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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