> > > On 28 Jul 2026, at 23:36, Bob Bishop <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > >> On 28 Jul 2026, at 20:57, Poul-Henning Kamp <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> [?] > >> All the way back to 386BSD's /etc/MAKEDEV script, and probably prior to > >> that, group operator [etc] > > > > I suspect this may originate with UTS on IBM mainframes in the early 80s. > > Amdahl UTS? I used that somewhere in the 1983-85 (thereabouts?) timeframe. I > believe it was v6/v7 and later System V. > > The time of operators running ?dump? seems to be long gone. There are finer > grained was of achieving the end result now, and the risk of allowing a > partition table to be destroyed as an unintended consequence of having a > residual semi-privileged group is a problem.
Have I missed something in the thread, operators should only have read access to the nodes, how are they being allowed to modify anything? > Regards, > > Jan M. > > > > > -- Rod Grimes [email protected]
