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Date:      Sat, 18 Feb 1995 05:16:37 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        ache@astral.msk.su, bde@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-etc@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc/etc.i386 MAKEDEV
Message-ID:  <199502171816.FAA21688@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>>  uucp -> uucp.wheel (perhaps this should be .dialer, but .wheel is safer)

>Please, make it uucp.dialer, there some admin things involved,
>i.e. shared access to serial devices for two different groups:
>one for dialout (group dialer) and one for uucp admins (user uucp).
>1) removing uucp is impossible.
>uucp access needed by Taylor stuff, so we can't change this.
>2) removing dialer (what you do) is impossible.
>dial out group should _not_ have access to uucp admin files
>and moreover to wheel files too.

They defaulted to uucp.wheel before.  I don't know what all the devices are
so I don't know if they should even be owned by uucp.  The following
devices are owned by uucp:

	tty[xyz]?	uucp.wheel	(should this be root.wheel like ttyd?)
	tun?		uucp.dialer	(what does this have to do with uucp?)
	ityo?		uucp[.wheel]	(is this like cuaa?)

ityo is a new isdn device.  If it is a tty then it should be named cuaa?
or else cuaa? should be renamed to have something to do with their device
driver (maybe sioo?).

Other isdn devices have ownership root[.wheel].  ity0? conflicts with our
naming scheme in two ways if it is a tty: its name doesn't start with tty,
and its name ends with 2 digits.

Bruce



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