From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 17 07:31:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA17890 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 07:31:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from conductor.synapse.net (conductor.synapse.net [199.84.54.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id HAA17878 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 07:31:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from evanc@synapse.net) Received: (qmail 28336 invoked from network); 17 Nov 1997 15:31:40 -0000 Received: from cello.synapse.net (199.84.54.81) by conductor.synapse.net with SMTP; 17 Nov 1997 15:31:40 -0000 Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 10:31:39 -0500 (EST) From: Evan Champion To: Doug White 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 Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Doug White wrote: > Did I misunderstand the question? I thought you could mount an FS but > wanted to change the perms on who accessed it. Some of my /dev/r?sd* nodes were owned by root:wheel while the vast majority were owned by root:operator. The ones owned by root:wheel appeared in general to be for mounted devices, but then there were mounted devices that were root:operator too. The issue is that it is a bit difficult to dump as operator:operator when your disks are not readable by group operator. I was wondering if there was any reason why FreeBSD created/set those devices root:wheel as I have always been used to disk devices being root:operator. I have since chgrp'd them all to operator. Evan