Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 21:44:19 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, Soeren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk>, <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: /dev/acd*t* no longer available in -current? Message-ID: <20021116213507.R18069-100000@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1021115112338.10878E-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Robert Watson wrote: > So one thing we could start doing is have sysinstall's adduser stuff offer > to place new users in the operator group, and set up the default > permissions on removable devices such that the operator group has > read/write access to them (or even just read-access). This would be > logically equivilent to placing users in an admin group at instlal on > Windows or Mac OS X. Operator access connotes the ability to shut down > the system in FreeBSD, as well as the ability to dump file systems, etc. > Another possibility would be to evolve our notion of console user based on > fbtab some for workstation configurations. I've always done most of this manually. But I only normally grant write access to group operator for floppies, since my other removable devices are too large to risk clobbering them easily. (I sometimes temporarily make even non-removable disk partitions writable for testing.) Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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