Bug#342455: tech-ctte: Ownership and permissions of device mapper block devices

2005-12-13 Thread Ian Jackson
Raul Miller writes (Bug#342455: tech-ctte: Ownership and permissions of device mapper block devices): I've been looking at these bugs, and I can see no good reason for the 600 permissions, nor the reason to avoid using the disk group. I basically agree, but I'm going to try to play devil's

Permissions for devices, technical committee discussion

2005-12-13 Thread Ian Jackson
Just in case the notifications from the BTS, and CC's so far, haven't made this clear: I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the Technical Committee is considering complaints about the default permissions of device nodes made by devmapper and lvm2. See bug #316883 and the bugs

Processed: devmapper/lvm2 device permissions bugs

2005-12-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 316883 tech-ctte Bug#316883: lvm2: creates device nodes as root:root 600, breaking amanda Bug#329409: group and perms wrong in /dev/mapper Bug#341901: udev: Ownership and permissions incorrect for device-mapper devices and directories Bug

Bug#342455: tech-ctte: Ownership and permissions of device mapper block devices

2005-12-13 Thread Guy Maor
I agree with your technical assessment, Ian. On 12/13/05, Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the committee's ruling should explicitly castigate the devmapper maintainer for failing to engage constructively with any of the submitters. But I disagree with this. I think such a

Bug#342455: tech-ctte: Ownership and permissions of device mapper block devices

2005-12-13 Thread Ian Jackson
Guy Maor writes (Bug#342455: tech-ctte: Ownership and permissions of device mapper block devices): I agree with your technical assessment, Ian. Do you have an opinion about 660 vs 640 ? And the question of equivalence to root ? On 12/13/05, Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the