On Mon, 07 Jan 2002 22:07:02 Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 12:28:11PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > > > Currently /dev/plex86 defaults to mode 666 on devfs. Is this really > desired? > > > > Perhaps we should have a plex86 group and make the device node default > to > > mode 660 and group plex86? > > I would say that it should default to 600 and be adjusted by the local > admin. Or is it possible for plex86 to set things up correctly at > installation time by dropping a config file under /etc/devfs/conf.d?
Hello, Running Plex86 as root is likely dangerous and in any case severely discouraged, so I don't see why an admin would want to have /dev/plex86 chmod'ed 600, restricting Plex86 usage to the superuser. Russel, I can see some conffiles in /etc/devfs/conf.d but they don't belong to the devfsd package. Shouldn't i provide them myself? I guess this is the proper line to do so: REGISTER plex86 PERMISSIONS root.plex86 0660 Also policy specifies that the MAKEDEV script should be used when a package needs device files. Are you sure if devfsd is policy-compliant? Upstream does it with mknod. Is it possible to create the plex86 device with MAKEDEV? In case it is i don't know how to do it with MAKEDEV, someone could enlighten me? Thanks, -- ---------------------------------------------------- Robert Millan Debian/GNU user zeratul2 wanadoo es http://getyouriso.dyndns.org/ ----------------------------------------------------
