On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Chris Watt wrote: > At 05:01 PM 12/14/01 -0600, Carey F. Cox wrote: > > > >I am running a new installation of rh7.2 and have a couple of questions... > > > >What happened to devfsd? > > You don't need it unless you're using devfs (actually technically you don't > NEED it even if you are using devfs) and last time I looked Redhat didn't > do this by default (it is still experimental after all). Apparently Redhat > 7.2 doesn't even come with a copy of devfsd. I would assume you can install > devfsd from the RH7.1 rpm or from a tarball if you want, but you would > probably need to modify your init scripts to use it.
Thanks for the info, Chris! I'll check into it. I just thought that it was replaced by something else. > > >How can I set permissions on devices under /dev, i.e. /dev/sg0? > > Just like you would a file, e.g. > chmod 644 /dev/sg0 I guess I should have been more clear. What I want is the functionality of assigning certain devices to the user. This will work for devices listed in fstab, but not devices such as a SCSI scanner, which is what I want access to. What you suggest would work well for a mostly single user system, but I worry about security on multi-user systems. Thanks again, Carey -- ====================================================================== <> Carey F. Cox, PhD | PHONE: (318) 257-3770 <> <> Assistant Professor | FAX: (318) 257-2306 <> <> Dept. of Mech. Eng. | EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <> <> Louisiana Tech University | WEB: http://www.latech.edu/~cfcox <> ====================================================================== _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
