/dev 5.3 vs 4.x, additional rights for user, reboot

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Tue Nov 30 09:15:21 PST 2004


On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 06:08:39PM +0100, xinopher at web.de wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I started to move some of my machines from 4.x to 5.3.
> 
> Using amanda (www.amanda.org) for backups I ran into a problem:
> 
> The user operator is used by amanda for all stuff, for example
> questioning /dev/ch0 to change the tape.
> 
> 5.3: ls -la /dev/ch0
> crw-------  1 root  operator  232,   0 Nov 30 14:35 /dev/ch0
> 
> While using 4.x I just did chmod g+rw /dev/ch0 during installation
> of amanda and everything was fine, now rebooting a 5.3 machine
> everything is not fine as the additional rights are gone...
> 
> Is there a way to grant additional rights surviving reboots?
> I can write a little script for /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ but I do not think
> that would be very cute :-(

man devfs

Kris
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