Nope -- using the sgen driver allows access as any user. I've gotten it
working fine with mtx stuff.
Bradley, do you see the device in the /var/adm/messages (or dmesg) output
from bootup?
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 06:47:18PM -0500, John R. Jackson wrote:
> >... has anyone got chg-scsi to work with the sgen driver in Solaris 8?
> >I keep getting a "DeviceCapablitiesPage==NULL" when I run chg-scsi.
>
> My guess (and this is just a guess) would be that they have restricted
> access to root. That's what the older sst driver does. What happens
> if you (carefully) run your test as root instead of the Amanda user?
>
> If this is the problem, we obviously cannot fix it as we were able to do
> with the source to sst (it's a dumb bug anyway -- the permissions on the
> device should control access, IMnsHO). So you'll either need to use the
> (modified -- see below) sst driver that comes with Amanda or we'll have
> to make chg-scsi setuid root whenever it needs to do ioctls -- ick.
>
> >Bradley S. Huffman
>
> John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> ** I don't think the "allow non-root" changes are in the current
> sources. I keep meaning to commit them but haven't gotten around to
> it yet. If you want to go this route, either find them in the E-mail
> archive or ask me -- they are trivial.
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