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From: Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de>
Subject: Re: CHOWN PB
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 13:53:50 +0200
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To: Toula Michael <keos@wanadoo.fr>
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On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 12:46:47AM +0200, Toula Michael wrote:
> Hi,
> Ok here is the deal :
> I would like to allow users from a given group (let say the cpufreq 
> group) to have write acces to /proc/cpufreq and 
> /proc/sys/cpu/0/speed...I try the following :
> 
> $ chown root:cpufreq /proc/cpufreq
> $ chmod 664 /proc/cpufreq
> And then...
> $ ls -l /proc/cpufreq
> ...show me that nothing changes.
> 
> Any idea on how to solve this problem ? Because login as root every time 
> I want to change the frequency is quite boring ( I would like to be able 
> to use button of my window manager to change it), and because of that 
> other people that use my laptop can change the frequency because they 
> don't have the root passwd...
> Thx in advance...
> Mike

man 8 sudo

	Dominik