Re: /dev 5.3 vs 4.x, additional rights for user, reboot

From: Kris Kennaway (kris_at_obsecurity.org)
Date: 11/30/04

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    On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 06:08:39PM +0100, xinopher@web.de wrote:
    > Hi
    >
    > I started to move some of my machines from 4.x to 5.3.
    >
    > Using amanda (www.amanda.org) for backups I ran into a problem:
    >
    > The user operator is used by amanda for all stuff, for example
    > questioning /dev/ch0 to change the tape.
    >
    > 5.3: ls -la /dev/ch0
    > crw------- 1 root operator 232, 0 Nov 30 14:35 /dev/ch0
    >
    > While using 4.x I just did chmod g+rw /dev/ch0 during installation
    > of amanda and everything was fine, now rebooting a 5.3 machine
    > everything is not fine as the additional rights are gone...
    >
    > Is there a way to grant additional rights surviving reboots?
    > I can write a little script for /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ but I do not think
    > that would be very cute :-(

    man devfs

    Kris

    
    



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