On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 03:31:00PM -0700, Zack Gilburd wrote: Content-Description: signed data > On Tuesday 10 June 2003 00:41, Laurence Baldwin wrote: > > In the proccess of swopping my hdd around Ive managed to change all the > > permissions of my /dev/* to root:root. > > > > Is there any easy way I can fix this? I dont have another gentoo box I > > can look at :( > Everything in dev should be owned by root. Actually, you are partially in error there. While the great majority of the devices are owned by root:root, there are a number that have other owners and groups.
files in /dev/pts/ should be explictly owned by the user on that shell, with a group of 'tty'. /dev/floppy/* should have a group of 'floppy' so that you can let local users mount and handle floppy disks without root access. The cdrom devices (/dev/ide/host?/bus?/target?/lun?/cd) have a group of 'cdrom' for the same reason. /dev/tts/* are generally root.root, or root.serial. In special cases they may be owned by other users, particually when used with a UPS. There is plenty more stuff like this. I suggest looking at /etc/devfsd.conf for some more of it. -- Robin Hugh Johnson E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page : http://www.orbis-terrarum.net/?l=people.robbat2 ICQ# : 30269588 or 41961639 GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85
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