From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rich turner Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 23:17:54 +0000 Subject: Re: group ownership in initrd Message-Id: <1119395875.4478.16.camel@rich> List-Id: References: <1119392244.4478.11.camel@rich> In-Reply-To: <1119392244.4478.11.camel@rich> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org are the numerical id's you refer to the group ownership id's indicated in the rules file? are you saying that if i want to use udev in an initrd i will need to include /etc/group (and perhaps /etc/passwd) in the initrd if my ownership id's are names rather than numbers in my rules files? On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 00:50 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 03:17:24PM -0700, rich turner wrote: > > i am starting udev in my initrd and it is creating the devices with the > > correct MODE permissions but it is not creating it with the correct > > group permissions. > > > > what i have in my initrd, among other things, is the entire /etc/udev > > directory and the /sbin/udev and /sbin/udevstart executables. is there > > something else i am missing that will create my device nodes with the > > correct user and group ownership? > > Do you use numerical id's? If not, make sure initrd can resolve the name > to the uid/gid with prepared udev. > > Kay ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt77&alloc_id492&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel