David Newall wrote:
Tetsuo Handa wrote:I didn't mean that "/dev is writable by everybody".
/dev needs to be writable, but this means that files on /dev might beI infer that you mean /dev needs to be writable by anyone, not by just its owner or owner and group (conventionally root/root.) This goes against conventional wisdom, which is that /dev must be writable only by the administrator. Why do you say otherwise?
tampered with.
I meant that "/dev must be mounted for read-write mode"