Re: [gentoo-dev] Devfs permissions ?! [was:Permissions to dial out ?]

[Terje Kvernes <terjekv@math.uio.no>]

Viktor Lakics <lakicsv@usa.net> writes:

> I tried chmod 666 /dev/ttyS0, and suddenly everything worked. I was
> able to dial out as a normal user. I was happy. Then I rebooted and
> the problem came back. The permissions changed back to what it was.
> It seems to be that they are automatically generated at boot time.

  ah. hm. right. I sort of smell devfs here. getting devfs to store
  permissions between boots isn't trivial.
 
> Now what?

  you might want to fiddle with pam for stuff like this. or manually
  make a small hack for it.
 
> I know nothing about devfs, but I now that I have this thing mounted
> automatically (I guess is built in the kernel - I do nor have to
> pass anything to grub). Is it possible that I have to set the
> permissions somehow through this devfs?!

  sort of, yes.

> If yes, how? What is the utility to do that?

  <url: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/devfs.html#persistence >

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Terje