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SubjectRe: [bug] /etc/profile: line 30: /dev/null: Permission denied (Was: Re: [PATCH] Remove broken by design and by implementation devtmpfs maintenance disaster)
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 20:53, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> I've reproduced a bug with the following .config options:
>
>  CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y
>  CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y
>
> /dev/null and /dev/zero are not read/writable to ordinary users,
> breaking normal bootup and login:

Udev should run long before some ordinary/non-root user can login, and
apply the permissions as it always does. It's known to work on Fedora,
SUSE, Ubuntu. What kind of system/environment/setup is that where you
see this?

Kay
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