Re: /dev permission and ownership weirdness

George (greerga@nidhogg.ham.muohio.edu)
Fri, 11 Jun 1999 00:06:15 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Albert Strasheim wrote:

>For some reason, SOMETHING (for the lack of a better word) seems to be
>changing the permissions and ownership of certain files under /dev on my
>system.
>
>The affected devices include audio, radio, floppy, joystick and a few
>others (midi*, audio*, radio*, js*, fd[01]*, vcs[24], vcsa[24], hdc,
>console, dsp*, fb*).

Sounds like login changing it for console logins.

Check page 203 of your RedHat installation guide or
/etc/security/console.perms for more information.

Definitely not a kernel problem though. :P

-George Greer

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