| Bill Jonas on Mon, 31 Dec 2001 14:50:17 +0100 |
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On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 12:53:12AM -0500, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> Are you logged into your machine via X right now? Go look at who
> owns /dev/console. How 'bout who owns the {p,t}ty you're typing at?
Good point. I forgot about that special case. My comment was directed
at the general case, though: disk, audio, framebuffer, memory, printer,
and other such devices. You are correct, though; some devices are
properly owned by users, although those cases are usually handled
automatically by the system.
> (Even groups are a bit too blunt. Which is why I'm behind getting a
> decent ACL system into the file systems in free Unix-like operating
> systems.
Yes, ACLs would *definitely* be nice. User and group permissions work
just fine for my own machine, but that becomes very hard to scale to a
machine with hundreds or more users.
> Anyway, back to the point at hand: that cdrom device should have
> worked just fine and, evidently, did with several other peices of
> uiserland software,
You are correct. I had glossed over the device owner, resulting in an
incorrect conclusion.
I suppose for a strictly single-user system, it probably wouldn't hurt
anything, though it might cause some confusion and/or difficulty getting
things to work properly if you go to add another user.
(Sorry for the late reply. I was away for a while.)
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