On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robe > rt Watson writes: > > >> > No, the default permissions are specified in the driver source code > >> > via make_dev(). > >> > >> The drivers only get the magic numbers for uids and gids from a central > >> file. This is bad enough. I think all devices should have ownership > >> root:wheel and mode 0600, but that would increase the problems with > >> non-persistent attributes. devfs(8) may be able to handle this now. > > > >I have to say that the ownership issue has been a pet peeve of mine for > >some time: I would really like the kernel to know about exactly two magic > >id values: uid 0 (suser uid, default uid, default devfs owner), and gid 0 > >(default gid, default devfs owner). Hard-coding of other non-0 values in > >the kernel leads to many potential (and real) problems. > > I think we should stick to the current slightly "hackish" way, possibly > with the modification that the security-officer gang gets to rule what > exact m/o/g devices in the FreeBSD cvs tree should have.
I'm not suggesting we change to this model at this point, or at any particular point in the future, it's just a pet peeve that someday I'd like to address :-). Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Associates Laboratories To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
