[Gllug] DevFS permissions

[Vincent AE Scott]

Stephen Harker(steve at pauken.co.uk)@Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 01:58:28PM +0000:
> Right. So I have a Mandrake 8.1 (+cooker) upgraded from 8.0 and at 
> some point DevFS was introduced to the system. I have a SCSI CD 
> Writer which is scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/cd with a symbolic link 
> to /dev/scd0. The owner/permissions are root.root/r-xr-xr-x. No 
> attempts at changing permissions manually work at all. The upshot is 
> that I have to run grip and gcombust etc as root. I would rather not. 
> There is no reason to run grip as root normally.
> Any ideas on how to change it?

have a read thru: defsd(8)

it looks as if you can set permisisons for devices.  not having used
devfs i cant say for certain, but it looks like a starting point.


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