Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 15:49:48 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> To: Robin Breathe <robin@isometry.net> Cc: 'Mike Makonnen' <mtm@identd.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adduser(8) in 5.0-R Message-ID: <20030121124948.GB15725@ns2.wananchi.com> In-Reply-To: <001601c2c148$09ee6660$026ca8c0@ishadow> References: <20030121121253.RISQ3094.out003.verizon.net@localhost> <001601c2c148$09ee6660$026ca8c0@ishadow>
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* Robin Breathe <robin@isometry.net> [20030121 15:23]: wrote: > Wonderful, thank you too :) > > Another totally unrelated thing I'm a little unsure on is the default group > ownerships of the /dev/ttyv? Devices under devfs. Some are owned by group > tty, others by wheel. Is this correct/intended? It seems rather arbitrary. > > # ls -l ttyv? > crw------- 1 root tty 12, 0 Jan 20 07:54 ttyv0 > crw------- 1 root tty 12, 1 Jan 19 20:02 ttyv1 > crw------- 1 root tty 12, 2 Jan 18 21:24 ttyv2 > crw------- 1 root tty 12, 3 Jan 18 21:24 ttyv3 > crw------- 1 root wheel 12, 4 Jan 18 21:24 ttyv4 > crw------- 1 root wheel 12, 5 Jan 18 21:24 ttyv5 > crw------- 1 root wheel 12, 6 Jan 18 21:24 ttyv6 > crw------- 1 root tty 12, 7 Jan 21 12:24 ttyv7 > crw------- 1 root wheel 12, 8 Jan 18 21:24 ttyv8 > crw------- 1 root wheel 12, 9 Jan 18 21:24 ttyv9 > crw------- 1 root wheel 12, 10 Jan 18 21:24 ttyva > crw------- 1 root wheel 12, 11 Jan 18 21:24 ttyvb > crw------- 1 root wheel 12, 12 Jan 18 21:24 ttyvc > crw------- 1 root wheel 12, 13 Jan 18 21:24 ttyvd > crw------- 1 root wheel 12, 14 Jan 18 21:24 ttyve > crw------- 1 root wheel 12, 15 Jan 18 21:24 ttyvf > > Yours, > Hey Robin When you are logged in as root, the virtual terminal that you are using has those permissions - root:tty When you login as robin, it will have robin:tty. The unused virtual terminals will remain root:wheel It's about who is assigned that device. Technically, I am not able to explain this but that is what I've observed. -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> "The box said 'Requires Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com Windows 95, NT, or better,' Tel: +254 2 313985-9 +254 2 313922 so I installed FreeBSD." GSM: +254 72 743223 +254 733 744121 This sig is McQ! :-) God is not dead! He's alive and autographing bibles at Cody's To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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