On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 06:35:52PM -0400, Bryan Kadzban wrote: > Matthew Burgess wrote: > > ### RATIONALE FOR REMOVAL ### ptmx - isn't directly accessed by a > > user. /etc/fstab dictates pty perms > > That's incorrect; this change would break PTYs completely.
And apparently your statement is also incorrect because ssh can properly create ptys all day long with the proper permissions. So apparently a closer look into both scenarios is warranted. > If your printer supports PostScript natively, you can cat PS files to > your printer device. In fact, even if it doesn't support PS, you can > send the output of GhostScript to the printer device (this is one more > package, but it's nothing on the order of cups or lprng). (I do this > whenever I need to print anything -- I print it to a file, then run the > file through GS with -sOutputFile=/dev/lp0.) But you cannot do that without explicitly assigning a non-root user to the lp group. LFS will not have that group in the future so it wouldn't make sense to create a device with the same perms it would have by default. > For that matter, all the device categories that the current config file > says "xxxx devices go in their own directory" (sound, input) will now be > cluttering up /dev, which is (at least IMO) the Wrong Thing. This statement warrants further consideration. Thanks for pointing it out. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
