Re: Operator, Information, give me geom.ctl on the line

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> > On 28 Jul 2026, at 23:36, Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> wrote:
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> > Hi,
> > 
> >> On 28 Jul 2026, at 20:57, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> >> 
> >> [?]
> >> All the way back to 386BSD's /etc/MAKEDEV script, and probably prior to
> >> that, group operator  [etc]
> > 
> > I suspect this may originate with UTS on IBM mainframes in the early 80s.
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> Amdahl UTS? I used that somewhere in the 1983-85 (thereabouts?) timeframe. I believe it was v6/v7 and later System V.
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> The time of operators running ?dump? seems to be long gone. There are finer grained was of achieving the end result now, and the risk of allowing a partition table to be destroyed as an unintended consequence of having a residual semi-privileged group is a problem.

Have I missed something in the thread, operators should only have read
access to the nodes, how are they  being allowed to modify anything?
 
> Regards,
> 
> Jan M.
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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org