On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 02:21:19PM +0200, kalanikta wrote: > I've been trying to change the permissions on /dev/pts/* from crw--w---- to > crw-rw---- so that group has access to write to them. > A specific user was added to the tty group so only he has r/w permissions. > So I've changed the TTYMODE to 660 /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh but it's not > changing any permissions after reboot. > > So I am wondering if this is a bug or just not intended to work this way or > ... ? > Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
You haven't mentioned which distribution you're using. I'm assuming stable or testing. What's probably happening here is that /dev/pts is actually mounted in the initramfs and then the whole of the /dev mount and any sub-mounts are moved to the rootfs /dev after it has been mounted. Because it's already mounted, mountdevsubfs doesn't do anything, hence your permissions aren't applied. initscripts in unstable now always remounts (if already mounted) with the configured permissions. Note that this can be done by either editing mountdevsubfs.sh directly (not recommended) or by adding an entry to /etc/fstab (recommended). The mount options in fstab for /dev/pts will be used when doing the remount. This should make its way into testing in the next few weeks. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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