Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Jan 1998 21:39:58 +1100 | From | Kevin Lentin <> | Subject | Re: devfs: default permissions - SOLUTION |
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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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