Marco d'Itri wrote: > ? > > On May 16, Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On May 16, Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> /dev/tty[0..9] should be group 'tty' >> On my static systems all active ttys are owned by group root, I think >> because getty changes it. >> Do you see any reason to change the default group to tty? >> >>> /dev/ptmx should be group 'tty' >>> /dev/console should be group 'tty' >> The group does not matter for these devices since they are world >> writeable. Do you see any reason to change the group to tty? >> >> I do not think that uniformity with MAKEDEV is important,
Well, I do.... it's frankly a matter of consistency, and nothing more. It's mildly unnerving for such things to change as a side effect of switching from a default static /dev to a default udev system. Also, when /udev isn't generating device nodes for some reason (usually a kernel bug), I fairly routinely use MAKEDEV to generate a node temporarily for testing purposes. It's troublesome when the 'testing' node pops up with different permissions from the 'final' node for no particular reason.... >> I value more >> permissions being consistent and as simple as possibile. Absolutely. Feel free to reassign this to MAKEDEV if you think your choice of ownership and permissions are preferable! I don't really care what they are, as long as they're consistent. Perhaps you could talk to the MAKEDEV maintainer and work out a mutually acceptable solution so that they agree? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
