Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 12:43:31 +0100 From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS, the time has come... Message-ID: <19990102124331.02468@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199901020455.UAA01211@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Fri, Jan 01, 1999 at 08:55:55PM -0800 References: <199901020438.VAA15410@mt.sri.com> <199901020455.UAA01211@dingo.cdrom.com>
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As Mike Smith wrote: > I was just discussing this with Eivind; I think that we can comfortably > cover every set of requirements with: > > - a kernel-wide default owner/group/permissions for new nodes, which > can be overridden by the device driver in response to eg. > configuration arguments or device-specific concerns. I think (and I know i'm not alone with this) that the kernel should have no further knowledge of UIDs and GIDs except UID/GID 0:0. Everything else violates the POLA in case someone edits her /etc/master.passwd and /etc/group (and I hope you don't suggest that the kernel might read those files ;-) [This is slightly on the side of the present discussion, but can serve as relevant background for those thinking of persistence. I'm unlikely to approve any follow-ups on this message. -EE] -- 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. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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