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SubjectRe: devfs: default permissions - SOLUTION
On Sat, Jan 10, 1998 at 09:54:45AM +1100, Richard Gooch wrote:
> What creates those "conservative defaults" before device drivers are
> loaded? What happens if a device driver is loaded (i.e. built-in)
> before the administrator changes the permissions?
> Also, you you have to write the entire permissions database again?
> Finally, you can get a more traditional effect by doing:
> # ls -l /dev
> # chown root.lp /dev/lp*

And more importantly, the kernel should not be trusting in the existence of
certain files to create its devices. The kernel should not be reading any
files at all.

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