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Date:      Fri, 14 Nov 1997 17:50:38 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Evan Champion <evanc@synapse.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: permissions on /dev/sd*
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971114174956.4473J-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971113172423.12744A-100000@cello.synapse.net>

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On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Evan Champion wrote:

> Is there any particular reason why the permissions on my mounted drives
> are root:wheel 640 instead of root:operator 640?  This is making it rather
> difficult for me to back up.

Because the underlying mountpoint is owned by root:wheel.  It's a matter
of dismounting the drives, chown root:operator /mountpoint and remounting.

I know this is hard for /usr :-)

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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