On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Bruce Evans wrote: > > No, the default permissions are specified in the driver source code > > via make_dev(). > > The drivers only get the magic numbers for uids and gids from a central > file. This is bad enough. I think all devices should have ownership > root:wheel and mode 0600, but that would increase the problems with > non-persistent attributes. devfs(8) may be able to handle this now.
I have to say that the ownership issue has been a pet peeve of mine for some time: I would really like the kernel to know about exactly two magic id values: uid 0 (suser uid, default uid, default devfs owner), and gid 0 (default gid, default devfs owner). Hard-coding of other non-0 values in the kernel leads to many potential (and real) problems. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Associates Laboratories To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
