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From: jesse@csmd.cs.UNI-Magdeburg.DE (Roland Jesse)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: device permissions
Date: 20 Sep 1995 08:46:17 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Magdeburg, CS Dept, Germany
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In which way may I change the permissions for a divice, such as
'rfd0.1440', e.g. for using the mtools not only as root ?

'chmod go+rw /dev/rfd0.1440' (as root) does not work...

Roland

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