>
> >
> > That would be the problem, and the devfs mount goes
> > away when you reboot,
> > I realize devfsd does something to handle (tarball-like I
> > seem to recall?), but
> > that seems less than elegant to me...
>
> there used to be hack to preserve perm's that used tar.
>
> however with the advent of devfsd that hack is gone. now you just specify
> the permissions in a config file, exact syntax i forget, but something like:
>
> /dev/sd/c0b1t3u0 PERM root.disk 664
> /dev/sd PERM root.disk 660
>
> etc.. and all your SCSI disks will automatically get these perm's when
> they're created, except for disk bus1id3, which get's special perms's.. etc.
>
> now that's nice. Much easier to admin, which leads to better security, etc.
Hmm, true, much nicer. What about devices that are needed to read
that config file? Or are the permissions on those just reset once the config
file is read?
Stephen
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