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Date:      Mon, 17 Nov 1997 10:31:39 -0500 (EST)
From:      Evan Champion <evanc@synapse.net>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: permissions on /dev/sd*
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971117102842.283D-100000@cello.synapse.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971117001526.9641T-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>

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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




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