Permissions with GBDE.

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <200402111423.20778.lukas.kaminski at web.de>, Lukas Kaminski writes:
>Hi! 
>
>Something strange happens:
>
>after a 'gbde attach /dev/afd0 -l /etc/gbde/afd0'
>the permissions are:
>
>crw-rw----  1 root  operator    4,  12 Feb 11 11:28 afd0
>crw-r-----  1 root  operator    4,  23 Feb 11 11:28 afd0.bde
>        
>so i can't mount the encrypted device as a user.
>I wonder why the ownership is set correctly, but the device permissions are 
>not.
>
>Maybe i misunderstood the whole concept of devfs....
>
>sysctl.conf:
>vfs.usermount=1
>
>devfs.conf:
>own     afd0    root:operator
>perm    afd0    0660
>own     afd0.bde        root:operator
>perm    afd0.bde        0660

I think devfs.conf only applies at boot time, and you really should
make a devfs rule (see devfs(8)) for which there is some support
in RCng too, but I have not quite figured out how to use it myself
yet :-(

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