> On Monday 11 November 2002 15:15, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > >> What is the Debain way to allow ALL users to use cd recorder? >> I won't remember to add all new users to cdrom and floppy groups, so >> I just set device permissions to 666. But sometimes permissions are >> reset for some reason ... Why? > > I can't say off-hand why they are reset, but you can make your own > changes permanent with dpkg-statoverride. First you have to make your > changes manually, but any package that would touch them later looks at > the statoverride and respects your changes.
Special files in /dev seem not to belong to any package, but to be created by MAKEDEV script (if devfs is not used). So I doubt dpkg-statoverride will help here. Perhaps I should look into MAKEDEV ...
