From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 17 00:15:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA22182 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:15:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA22177 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:15:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA09873; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:15:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:15:46 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Evan Champion cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: permissions on /dev/sd* In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Evan Champion wrote: > On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Doug White wrote: > > > Because the underlying mountpoint is owned by root:wheel. It's a matter > > of dismounting the drives, chown root:operator /mountpoint and remounting. > > That seems a more than a little dumb. Why should the permissions on my > mountpoints have anything to do with the /dev nodes? Methinks they should > be mutually exclusive... Did I misunderstand the question? I thought you could mount an FS but wanted to change the perms on who accessed it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major