Hi, On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 03:49:34PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > Further to my late posting as at foot of this email. New discovery, > quite strange; > > > 1) login as 'user' > > # chmod -c 777 /dev/sg1 > mode of `/dev/sg1' changed to 0777 (rwxrwxrwx) > > I am allowed to change the permission even without issuing the command > # su > # password > > After logout and re-login to the same 'user' > > # ls -l /dev/sg1 > crw------- 1 satimis root 21, 1 Apr 11 2002 /dev/sg1 > > permission cancelled
Your distribution has set up setting permissions automatically for you when you are logged in locally. Isn't it nice :-) This should be documented in your distribution's manual. Bye, Henning
