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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: devtmpfs default permissions
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:35:34 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091029163534.GA9220@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1256824970.30238.25.camel@mjollnir>

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 03:02:50PM +0100, Mark Rosenstand wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been using the devtmpfs patch for 2.6.31 and recently mainline
> 2.6.32-rc5.  I've noticed that /dev now have default tmpfs permissions,
> i.e. 1777.
> 
> CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y
> CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y
> 
> One can chmod the directory, but would it not make sense to use a more
> less permissive mode (e.g. 0755) by default?

I think the patch sent by Kay to the linux-kernel mailing list yesterday
will solve this problem.  It uses the default umask instead.

Can you test it out to verify this?

> Thanks for working out this feature, the "just works" of devfs together
> with the configurability of udev - love it :)

Glad you like it.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-29 16:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-29 14:02 devtmpfs default permissions Mark Rosenstand
2009-10-29 16:35 ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-10-29 17:12 ` Kay Sievers
2009-10-29 23:53 ` Mark Rosenstand
2009-10-30 11:48 ` Kay Sievers
2009-11-03  1:24 ` Mark Rosenstand
2009-11-04 15:25 ` Kay Sievers
2009-11-05 19:42 ` Kay Sievers
2009-11-05 21:01 ` Greg KH
2009-11-05 22:40 ` Kay Sievers

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