From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: group ownership in initrd
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 23:30:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050621233049.GA28874@vrfy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1119392244.4478.11.camel@rich>
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 04:17:54PM -0700, rich turner wrote:
> 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.
> 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?
Well, how could udev know the numbers? The kernel does not care about
your group names and therefore you have to avoid names or provide
everything neccessary to resolve it in initrd.
Kay
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-21 23:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-21 22:17 group ownership in initrd rich turner
2005-06-21 22:50 ` Kay Sievers
2005-06-21 23:17 ` rich turner
2005-06-21 23:30 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2005-06-22 17:33 ` rich turner
2005-06-22 17:47 ` Kay Sievers
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