Don't forget the most important, sound ;) All the stuff under sound, and snd isn't. I believe its set to the current user AT the machine with group audio. Although mine just could be screwed up.
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 23:54, Robin H.Johnson wrote: > 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. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
