[Gllug] DevFS permissions

[Formi]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Stephen Harker wrote:

> 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?
>


 I don't know if it will help, but when I boot mdk 8.1 on my laptop with
 the stock 2.2 kernel, devfsd is not started.

 I haven't observed any ill effects...


                                                    Formi.


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