Re: ownership of devices

[Pieter Meiring <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

> sheflug - http://home.freeuk.net/shef.lug
>
> Hi people,
>
> Just when I start to think I know what I'm doing....
>
> My /dev directory seems to contain a lot of devices owned by
> my non-root username. This can't be right can it? What could be causing this
to
> happen?
>
> (For the record I'm running RH6, so glibc2.1, and kernel 2.2.10.)
>

This is a buglet. I think it happens when you run config utilities that create
/dev files as a user with superuser permissions or as a user running su or sudo.
All the /dev files are usually owned by root or in soime cases by special
users. I have found that, if you have a multiuser system, you have to alter
most of these wrongly designated /dev files to root.root or root.disk, etc and
alter the permissions for access to suit to allow the system to run properly.
This did not seem to happen with RH5.2 AFAIK.

Pieter

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