| Bill Jonas on Mon, 24 Dec 2001 18:13:37 -0500 |
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On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 08:00:36PM -0500, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote: > Uh... he can. He *is* webergt, the owner of /dev/scd0. Either his > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/GiveConsole is chmoding this for him or he's > done it by hand. (I haven't really been following this thread.) > > root happens to own the sym link, but that's not relevant. Oh. I didn't notice that his user was the owner of the device file. I'm not used to individual users having ownership of devices. (Which I think is a bad idea anyway.) > That'd be the "disk" group, not the "cdrom" group, judging by the > above, and probably should be left alone to stay in sync with his > distro's automated security checking (presuming it does any). No, I did mean cdrom. I'm unsure of how other distributions do it, but with Debian, all the disk devices have group ownership of "disk". There is also a "cdrom" group, which is the proper group to own CD-ROM devices. This way if you want to grant 660 permissions to CD-ROMs, you don't give R/W access to other disks to users you want to have access to the CD-ROM. -- Bill Jonas * bill@billjonas.com * http://www.billjonas.com/ Developer/SysAdmin for hire! See http://www.billjonas.com/resume.html Attachment:
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