Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Oct 1999 19:07:28 -0400 (EDT) | From | Stephen Frost <> | Subject | Re: PUBLIC CHALLENGE: (was RE: devfs again, (was RE: USB device alloc ation) ) |
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On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Dan Hollis wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Horst von Brand wrote: > > > The use of a config file to determine permissions/ownership is not foreign > > > to the kernel or filesystems. > > Name one use of configuration files for local permissions/ownership on > > Unix/Linux. > > /etc/passwd, /etc/group
Those map numbers to names, the names aren't in the kernel.
Stephen
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