Re: devfs(5) Permissions

2002-03-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Malone writes: >On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 09:26:11PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> >I presume you'd push the rules in using sysclt or did you have >> >something more filesystem like in mind? >> >> Nope, just a sysctl. > >I guess then you just need a sysctl

Re: devfs(5) Permissions

2002-03-04 Thread David Malone
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 09:26:11PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >I presume you'd push the rules in using sysclt or did you have > >something more filesystem like in mind? > > Nope, just a sysctl. I guess then you just need a sysctl which lets you read the rules for a given devfs mount point

Re: devfs(5) Permissions

2002-03-03 Thread Terry Lambert
I've often thought that owner, group, and mode should be defaulted in the registration process for the device. This would let defaults be set in the source code, so in the worst case, you can rebuild the kernel to get them. This would also allow low granularity persistance to be handled in teh s

Re: devfs(5) Permissions

2002-03-03 Thread Julian Elischer
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Malone writes: > >On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 05:36:04PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Crist J. Clark" writes > >> : > >> >I've checked the manpages, the files in /etc, and Googled, and I can't

Re: devfs(5) Permissions

2002-03-03 Thread Szilveszter Adam
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 09:26:11PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >OK - I thought you had something much more complex in mind after > >your example: "plugging the nuclear reactor into the serial port > >where you had a a modem plugged in yesterday". > > No, that was to show why "persistence" i

Re: devfs(5) Permissions

2002-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Malone writes: >> Not really, the basic idea is just a linked list of rules: > >> name=="/dev/uscanner*" -> chmod 0644 >> driver=="bpf" -> chown user > >> It's not too much work, I just havn't had the time for it yet. >> (Junior Kernel Hackers can a

Re: devfs(5) Permissions

2002-03-03 Thread David Malone
> >Do you have any designs for this ruleset stuff? From what you said > >at BSDconEurope it will have to be fairly complicated to achieve > >the your aim of being better than a static permission for a given > >device. > Not really, the basic idea is just a linked list of rules: > name=="/d

Re: devfs(5) Permissions

2002-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Malone writes: >On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 05:36:04PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Crist J. Clark" writes >> : >> >I've checked the manpages, the files in /etc, and Googled, and I can't >> >find the answer. I am begining to

Re: devfs(5) Permissions

2002-03-03 Thread David Malone
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 05:36:04PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Crist J. Clark" writes > : > >I've checked the manpages, the files in /etc, and Googled, and I can't > >find the answer. I am begining to worry there isn't one. How does one > >change the permissi

Re: devfs(5) Permissions

2002-03-03 Thread Riccardo Torrini
On 03-Mar-2002 (17:02:35/GMT) Crist J. Clark wrote: > I think some people missed the point of the earlier question. I'm really sorry :( Next time I'll double read the messages. Riccardo. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the mes

Re: devfs(5) Permissions

2002-03-03 Thread Crist J. Clark
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 05:42:10PM +0100, Riccardo Torrini wrote: > On 03-Mar-2002 (16:31:36/GMT) Crist J. Clark wrote: > > > How does one change the permissions on dynamically created > > devices? That is, when the node comes into existence, it has > > the permissions I want, and not necessarily

RE: devfs(5) Permissions

2002-03-03 Thread Riccardo Torrini
On 03-Mar-2002 (16:31:36/GMT) Crist J. Clark wrote: > How does one change the permissions on dynamically created > devices? That is, when the node comes into existence, it has > the permissions I want, and not necessarily the defaults. You can (must?) use /etc/rc.devfs [...] # Setup DEVFS, ie p

Re: devfs(5) Permissions

2002-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Crist J. Clark" writes : >I've checked the manpages, the files in /etc, and Googled, and I can't >find the answer. I am begining to worry there isn't one. How does one >change the permissions on dynamically created devices? That is, when >the node comes into existe

devfs(5) Permissions

2002-03-03 Thread Crist J. Clark
I've checked the manpages, the files in /etc, and Googled, and I can't find the answer. I am begining to worry there isn't one. How does one change the permissions on dynamically created devices? That is, when the node comes into existence, it has the permissions I want, and not necessarily the de