From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: /dev/tty now a directory so can't ssh out anywhere
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 07:58:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040905075803.GA10292@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0408281744590.3663@quirk.hserus.net>
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 12:30:59AM -0400, jnf wrote:
> When I first switched over to udev I had similar problems- mainly because
> I wasn't aware, so I suppose its an ignorance thing on my part. But some
> of these things are kind've sane to have, for instance, /dev/null should
> probably be writeable, probably need permissions to ptmx, etc.
>
> Just out of curiousity, Greg, is there a particular reason that udev comes
> like this? I'd imagine some things would be more or less portable amongst
> the distro's. Just something I have been wondering for a while.
It's up to the distros to set this information up correctly as they all
have different groups and need different permissions for those groups :(
I track the gentoo rules and permissions in the main udev package, and
I'd gladly add the other distro's files if they would send them to me.
thanks,
greg k-h
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-05 7:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-28 12:41 /dev/tty now a directory so can't ssh out anywhere Suresh Ramasubramanian
2004-08-28 18:01 ` Greg KH
2004-08-29 1:37 ` Suresh Ramasubramanian
2004-08-29 3:35 ` Suresh Ramasubramanian
2004-08-30 4:30 ` jnf
2004-09-05 7:58 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-09-05 7:59 ` Greg KH
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