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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!news.dfn.de!gs.dfn.de!fauern!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: device permissions Date: 21 Sep 1995 09:15:34 +0200 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 17 Message-ID: <43r3em$ep1@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <43okcp$9mt@dali.cs.uni-magdeburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Roland Jesse <jesse@csmd.cs.UNI-Magdeburg.DE> wrote: > >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... It should, but mtools scan a variety of devices. I usually do a chmod 666 /dev/*fd[01]*. Alternatively, you can chmod 660 it and pass ownership to group "operator" or even create a special group like "devices" for it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)